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1806. 


State  of  Howat 
Ht>jutant*<Benerars  ©ffice. 

DES  MOINES,  January  14,  1896. 
To  the  Honorable  General  Assembly  of  Iowa: 

GENTLEMEN — We  have  the  honor  to  herewith  submit, 
as  the  committee  named  therein,  a  report  of  our  proceed 
ings  in  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  the  following  act 
of  the  Twenty-fourth  General  Assembly  of  Iowa,  to-wit: 

"Be  it  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Iowa: 

'  'SECTION  1.  That  the  adjutant-general  and  the  curator 
of  historical  collections,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  executive  council,  shall  cause  the  colors,  standards 
and  battle  flags  borne  by  Iowa  regiments  and  batteries 
during  the  war  of  the  rebellion  to  be  placed  in  her 
metically  sealed  glass  cases,  in  such  manner  as  to  display 
them  to  the  best  advantage,  and  to  preserve  them  as  far 
as  possible  from  all  injury  thereto,  and  place  them  in 
appropriate  locations  in  the  corridors  of  the  capitol;  so 
much  of  said  corridors  as  may  be  necessary  is  hereby 
appropriated  for  the  purpose. 

"SEC.  2.  The  sum  of  three  thousand  dollars,  or  so 
much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  is  hereb}^  appropriated 
out  of  any  fund  in  the  state  treasury  not  otherwise 
appropriated,  for  said  purpose,  and  that  all  accounts  for 
the  same  shall  be  audited  by  the  executive  council." 

Approved  April  7,  1892. 

For  the  "  Introduction "  to  this  report,  the  acknowl 
edgments  of  your  committee  are  due  to  Maj.  S.  H.  M. 
Byers.  Very  respectfully, 


Adjutant-  General. 


Curator  of  Historical  Collections. 


\\  ' 


-.group  ®ne... 

No-   1  — first  Cavalry. 

No.   2 — Second  Infantry- 
No.  3 — Second  Cavalry. 
No-  4— first  Battery. 
No.  5 — First  Infantry. 
No.  6 — Third  Infantry. 
No.  7 — Fourtb  Infantry. 
No.  8— Fifth  Infantry. 
No.  9— Sixth  Infantry. 

No.  10 — Seventh  Infantry 


INTRODUCTION, 


"T  WAS  a  noble  resolution  that  led  to  the 
proper  preservation  of  Iowa's  war  flags. 
There  was  no  danger  of  people  forgetting 
the  soldiers,  or  their  sacrifices,  but  these 
flags,  that  were  emblems  of  great  deeds, 
might  fade  away.  History  hardly  relates 
of  another  such  scene  as  was  witnessed  in 
Iowa's  capital  on  the  10th  of  August,  1894.  That  day 
saw  the  same  soldiers  who  had  carried  the  flags  in  battle 
bear  them  to  their  last  resting  place.  It  was  thirty 
years  nearly  since  the  war— almost  an  average  lifetime— 
and  all  these  years  the  battle  flags  of  the  state  had  been 
hidden  away  in  the  old  arsenal  by  the  river.  A  few  had 
been  in  museums  ;  a  few,  honored  as  souvenirs  of  the 
great  war,  were  treasured  as  so  much  gold  in  private 
homes,  where  happy  children  pointed  to  their  shiny 
folds  and  said,  " My  father  carried  yonder  flag."  Now 
all  the  flags,  banners,  and  guidons  that  had  been  through 
the  war  from  Iowa  were  to  be  gathered  together,  and 
with  acclaims  of  honor,  and  amidst  tears  and  prayers,  be 
borne  to  the  capitol.  It  was  a  day  to  be  remembered 
for  a  lifetime.  So  long  as  those  who  witnessed  the 
touching  spectacle  live,  they  will  recall  to  their  own 
hearts,  and  tell  to  their  children,  how  they  saw  5,000 
veteran  soldiers  of  the  great  war  come  and  march  again 
under  the  flags  they  once  bore  in  battle.  They  will  tell 
you  of  the  pathos  of  the  scene— of  the  white-haired  men, 
who,  in  their  youth,  had  borne  these  flags  in  the  fierce 


14  BATTLE  FLAG  DAY. 

storm  of  conflict,  now  again  taking  them  in  their  hands 
and  blessing  them  a.nd  kissing  them.  The  heart  throbs 
and  suppressed  tears  of  many  a  soldier  touching  again 
the  folds  of  these  flags  never  will  be  known.  There 
were  mothers  looking  on  whose  sons  lay  dead  on  south 
ern  battle  fields;  and  sisters  whose  brothers  filled  name 
less  graves  in  dark  forests  of  the  south.  ' '  My  boy 
fell  defending  that  flag,"  said  an  old  man  standing  at 
the  street-side,  as  the  banner  of  his  son's  regiment 
passed  by.  The  crowd  about  him  gave  way  till  the  col 
or-bearer  could  let  the  old  man  touch  the  sacred  colors 
with  his  hands.  Many  hearts  beat  quick  and  many  eyes 
were  wet  with  tears.  Yet  this  was  the  scene  repeated 
and  repeated  all  along  Locust  street,  from  Fifth  street  to 
the  bridge,  and  from  the  bridge  to  the  capitol.  Many  a 
white-haired  mother  from  country  farm  or  village  looked 
on  in  silence  as  some  flag  was  borne  by,  and  with  swell 
ing  hearts,  and  tearful  eyes,  thought  of  him  whose  grave 
she  had  never  seen. 

Des  Moines  was  filled  with  people,  and  the  vast  crowds 
that  lined  the  streets  where  the  flags  were  borne,  had 
but  a  single  thought.  Patriotism  and  gratitude,  and  love 
of  country  swelled  in  every  breast.  There  were  no  par 
tisans.  All  men  and  women  alike  gazed  on  the  tattered 
flags  and  thought  of  the  past.  They  looked  into  the 
faces  of  the  men  marching  and  said,  "These  are  they 
who  stormed  forts,  charged  batteries,  waded  through 
swamps,  starved  in  southern  prisons;  their  very  blood 
this  moment  on  the  bullet  ridden  flags."  None  cheered, 
their  hearts  stirred  too  deep — they  only  felt — and  a 
greater  emotion  few  will  ever  feel  this  side  of  the  grave. 
Here  and  there  the  little  remnant  of  some  army  band 
played  the  very  music  to  which  these  men  kept  step  at 
Shiloh  and  Mission  Ridge.  The  same  drums,  the  same 
drummers,  the  same  fifers,  the  tones  that  had  been  silent 
thirty  years  again  caused  the  blood  of  the  marching  men 
to  tingle  as  they  touched  elbows  and  with  quickened  step 
recalled  the  days  when,  as  comrades  and  brothers,  they 
went  battleward  to  that  same  old  tune. 


INTRODUCTION.  15 

Locust  street  for  a  solid  mile  was  full  of  men  thinking 
of  other  days.  Where  were  the  thousands  who  had 
touched  elbows  in  the  marching*  line,  to  that  same  music, 
to  those  same  drums,  thirty  years  ago? 

Twenty-five  thousand  of  Iowa's  soldiers  are  dead. 
Every  man  marching  on  Locust  street  that  day  thought 
of  a  comrade  who  once  marched  at  his  side  to  that  tune, 
but  who  now  slept  in  his  soldier  grave.  Ahead  of  them 
in  the  line  they  saw  the  flags,  torn  and  tattered,  that 
they  had  borne  over  some  rampart  blazing  with  cannon. 
Then  the  flag  was  new,  shiny  and  glorious.  Then  they 
were  making  history,  now  they  were  memories — slowly 
receding  to  the  past.  The  world  does  not  wait;  time 
does  not  wait;  the  soldiers  had  their  day,  their  glory  and 
their  death.  The  spectators  must  have  theirs,  too.  These 
thousands  of  youths  lining  the  sidewalks  are  thinking  of 
the  deeds  and  the  glory  of  these  veterans,  and  they  pant 
for  deeds  and  glory  of  their  own.  Will  they  be  as  brave, 
as  true,  as  noble,  as  patriotic  as  these  who  are  bearing* 
their  flags  for  the  last  time  forever?  All  the  vast  crowd 
are  thinking  of  these  things,  and  to  many  the  spectacle 
before  them  is  of  spectres  with  their  flags  marching  on  to 
the  end.  In  a  sense  they  are  bidding  them  good-bye  for 
ever.  It  is  the  final  obsequies  of  men  who  have  made 
history.  They  will  lay  their  flags  down  at  the  capitol, 
and  generations  will  look  at  them  and  say:  "There  are 
the  signs  of  their  glory,  but  they  are  gone. ' ' 

The  tinge  of  melancholy  that  seized  on  the  multitudes 
of  people  almost  silenced  demonstration.  Spite  of  the 
occasional  cheers  of  soldiers  on  being  handed  the  flags, 
spite  of  the  drums  and  the  bands  in  the  procession,  there 
was  comparative  silence,  and  a  minor  strain  ran  through 
every  chord,  touched  every  heart.  The  occasion  was  too 
great  for  noise;  too  many  hearts  throbbed  with  sad 
recollections,  too  many  eyes  filled  with  tears. 

At  the  head  of  the  procession  rode  the  gray-haired 
Colonel  Shaw,  a  soldier  of  two  wars,  a  hero  of  his  com 
mand,  who  rode  with  the  blaze  of  musketry  as  coolly  as 
now  he  rode  to  the  capitol. 


16  BATTLE   FLAG   DAY. 

One  hundred  and  thirty-five  veterans  walked  in  line 
bearing  the  old  flags.  Five  thousand  other  gray-haired 
veterans,  who  had  once  defended  these  colors  at  the 
mouth  of  the  deadly  cannon,  followed  as  a  guard  of  honor, 
and  what  a  guard  it  was! 

The  blood  of  these  men  still  stained  the  honored  folds 
of  the  flags.  These  banners  had  never  known  defeat. 
They  had  been  borne  in  a  hundred  battles — across  the 
works  of  many  a  fort,  but  dishonor  had  never  touched 
one  of  them.  It  is  a  proud,  a  noble  record  for  Iowa,  that 
her  flags  were  always  flags  of  honor  and  of  victory.  They 
were,  like  Iowa  soldiers,  at  the  front  everywhere. 

When  future  generations  shall  gaze  in  silence  upon  the 
dim  colors  of  the  flags  there  in  the  capitol,  let  them 
reflect  that  eighty  thousand  Iowa  men  carried  these 
emblems  of  a  nation  into  battle,  and  that  thirteen  thou 
sand  heroes  were  maimed,  slaughtered,  or  died  in  their 
defense.  Let  them  reflect  that  no  Iowa  flag  ever  sur 
rendered  to  equal  numbers;  that  not  one  of  these  banners 
ever  was  held  aloft  in  a  war  of  subjugation,  nor  for  state 
aggrandizement.  They  were  the  signs  of  our  own  pres 
ervation  only — the  symbols  of  a  free  people.  They  are 
dimmed,  but  by  the  blood  of  their  defenders;  and  torn, 
but  by  a  foe  that  thought  more  of  human  bondage  than 
of  the  nation's  life. 

It  was  noticeable  that  no  captured  flags  of  the  enemy 
were  borne  in  the  procession,  yet  Iowa  men  had  captured 
more  flags  than  she  had  regiments.  Hatred  of  foemen, 
revenge,  were  forgotten.  On  the  other  hand,  there  was 
no  silly  and  hypocritical  longing  for  the  love  and  good 
will  of  those  who  had  shot  down  comrades,  starved  help 
less  prisoners,  and  well-nigh  murdered  a  nation.  "Let 
God  judge  them  and  let  us  forget  them"  was  a  senti 
ment  of  fathers  and  mothers  whose  sons  sleep  in  the 
woods  of  Tennessee  or  in  the  sands  of  Andersonville. 
That  these  sons  should  be  forgotten  and  their  brave 
deaths  condoned  at  such  a  moment,  was  a  crime  against 
human  nature. 


INTRODUCTION.  17 

When  Governor  Jackson  issued  his  proclamation 
declaring  August  the  10th  a  state  holiday,  that  on  that 
day  the  flags  should  be  borne  to  the  capitol  in  solemn, 
but  glorious  procession,  there  was  universal  gratitude 
and  approval.  It  was  the  anniversary  of  the  battle  of 
Wilson's  Creek,  where  Iowa's  first  blood  was  shed.  It 
was  decided  that  the  battle  flags  at  the  arsenal  should  be 
taken  possession  of  by  the  representatives  of  the  Sons  of 
Veterans  and  by  them  be  handed  over  to  the  color-ser 
geants  who  had  borne  them  in  battle;  they  in  their  turn 
carried  them  with  glad  hearts  to  the  lines  of  veteran 
soldiers  waiting  in  line  to  receive  them  with  tears  and 
blessings.  Many  had  not  seen  these  flags  since  the 
bloody  battle's  charge  when,  lying  on  the  field  wounded, 
they  gave  faint  cheers  for  the  symbols  of  their  glory. 

Colonel  Dungan,  the  lieutenant-governor  of  the  state, 
had  been  selected  to  address  the  color-bearers  at  the 
arsenal,  and  his  words  teemed  with  patriotism  and  honor, 
for  he  too  had  been  a  noble  soldier. 

When  it  had  been  announced  in  the  press  that  the  old 
color-guards,  the  very  men  who  bore  these  flags  through 
the  dreadful  war,  should  be  the  very  men  to  carry  them 
now  in  their  last  procession,  a  glad  cheer  went  up  over 
the  state.  These  brave  men,  hidden  away,  pursuing 
their  simple  avocations  on  farm  or  in  country  village, 
silent  as  to  their  heroic  deeds  in  their  youth,  were  almost 
forgotten  by  the  busy  age.  Now  they  came  forward  and 
plead  for  their  rights — the  honored  privilege  of  once 
more  carrying  the  old  flag  and  touching  its  fading  folds 
with  their  hands  and  their  lips.  Many  and  many  a  letter 
reached  the  committee  of  arrangements  pathetic  and 
tender  to  tears,  written  without  the  elegancies  of  rhet 
oric  or  penmanship,  yet  tenderly,  touchingly  pleading 
that  the  writers  might  carry  the  flag  once  more  before 
they  died.  And  it  was  their  right.  Their  inelegancies 
of  rhetoric  and  spelling  were  good  enough  in  the  days 
when  cannon  were  firing  and  muskets  blazing,  and  men 
were  wanted  to  carry  these  flags  into  hostile  lines  and 
over  the  walls  of  death.  They  were  good  enough  now. 


18  BATTLE  FLAG  DAY. 

Thirty  years  had  made  a  difference,  too.  They  were 
young  then;  now  many  are  old,  some  poor.  The  fleet 
ing  years  had  not  allowed  them  to  catch  up  with  the 
opportunities  they  lost  while  absent  serving  their  country. 

Civilians  went  ahead  and  got  rich — rich  even  on  the 
misfortunes  of  war.  These  soldiers  lost  their  chance- 
many  their  health — many  even  their  savings  of  boyhood. 
To  many  in  that  line  a  grateful  nation  had  given  a 
pension — it  helped  keep  the  wolf  from  the  door — and  yet 
was  not  a  drop  in  the  bucket  to  the  hardships,  the  losses, 
the  calamities  that  followed  serving  in  a  four  years'  war. 

In  all  this  vast  crowd  there  was  none  who  did  not 
rejoice  in  the  help  the  nation  had  given,  and  who  did  not 
wish  it  had  been  more.  There  was  no  cry  of  fraud  and 
big  pensions;  no  people's  servants  in  high  places  sneering 
at  the  cripples  who  had  saved  the  country;  no  political 
sycophants  and  demagogues  striving  to  reduce  the  sol 
diers'  little  income.  Ah!  had  some  snarling  creature  on  that 
10th  of  August  raised  his  voice  against  pensioning  the  men 
who  bore  those  flags  he  would  have  been  stoned  to  death. 

The  day  was  hot  and  sultry,  but  spite  of  the  heat  the 
long  line  of  veterans  gladly  took  up  its  march  escorted 
by  the  National  Guard,  by  Sons  of  Veterans,  by  soldiers 
from  other  states,  by  civic  organizations,  by  bands  of 
music  and  by  the  governor  of  the  commonwealth  and  all 
his  military  family.  As  the  line  crossed  the  river  and 
approached  the  capitol,  its  war  flags  waving,  its  blue- 
coated  and  white-haired  legions  keeping  step  to  the 
music  they  had  heard  in  battle,  it  was  a  spectacle  never 
to  be  forgotten.  Once  it  was  like  the  funeral  of  some 
great  conqueror.  Rome  had  scarcely  seen  so  grand  a 
spectacle,  for  her  triumphal  entries  were  the  return  of 
professional  soldiers  who  waged  war  for  conquest,  and  in 
whose  train  men  were  led  to  bondage.  This  line,  sol 
emnly,  gloriously,  marching  to  Iowa's  capitol,  was  the 
fragments  of  an  army  that  had  fought  for  the  perpetuity 
of  free  institutions.  The  slaves  that  marched  in  its  line 
were  slaves  no  longer,  but  free  men  who  in  the  ranks  of 
the  union  army  had  battled  for  country. 


INTRODUCTION.  19 

The  splendid  arches  under  which  the  column  moved, 
though  bearing  the  names  of  honorable  battles,  still 
spoke  of  peace — good  will  to  men.  Many  of  the  private 
citizens  of  the  city  decorated  their  places  of  business  in 
a  way  that  told  of  their  appreciation  of  the  day  and  the 
patriotism  of  their  hearts.  Flags  floated  everywhere, 
yet  no  flags  were  looked  at  save  those  faded  and  torn  in 
the  procession  of  the  soldiers. 

When  the  marching  line  and  the  banners  reached  the 
east  side  of  the  capitol  a  great  crowd  of  people  already 
awaited  them.  The  old  flags  and  the  color  bearers  and 
as  many  veterans  as  possible  clustered  together  on  the 
great  east  steps,  where  they  were  photographed,  that 
children's  children  may  know  something  of  how  their 
fathers  and  the  flags  looked  on  this  day,  greatest  of  all  in 
Iowa's  history.  Then  commenced  the  speaking  exercises 
of  the  occasion. 

The  committee  on  general  arrangements  had  consisted 
of  Gen.  John  R.  Prime,  the  adjutant-general  of  the  state; 
Capt.  Charles  Aldrich,  curator  of  the  historical  society; 
Philip  Schaller,  department  commander;  Capt.  C.  H. 
Smith  and  Capt.  J.  P.  Patrick,  and  by  invitation,  George 
A.  Newman,  commander  of  the  Iowa  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic.  The  secretary  was  Charles  L.  Longley,  of  the 
department  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

At  different  committee  meetings  everything  had  been 
arranged  that  could  tend  to  make  the  day  one  of  great 
honor,  and  now  followed  the  opening  address  by  the 
president  of  the  day,  Gen.  J.  W.  Noble,  himself  one  of 
Iowa's  distinguished  soldiers. 

Des  Moines  Union  band  followed  with  its  strains  of 
loyal  music.  There  was  a  fervent  invocation  by  the 
Rev.  A.  V.  Kendrick,  National  Chaplain  of  the  G.  A.  R.? 
and  an  original  poem  by  S.  H.  M.  Byers,  entitled  "The 
Battle  Flags  of  Iowa,"  and  then  came  the  principal 
address  of  the  day,  on  the  "Returning  of  the  Flags,"  by 
Maj.  John  F.  Lacey,  member  of  congress,  and  a  gallant 
officer  of  the  old  army.  The  response  was  by  his  excel 
lency,  Frank  D.  Jackson,  governor  of  the  state.  Both 


20  BATTLE  FLAG  DAY. 

addresses  were  listened  to  with  joy  and  were  received  by 
the  attending  thousands  with  demonstrations  of  satis 
faction. 

Martial  music  by  Carper's  drum  corps  followed  the 
speeches,  and  Mrs.  Jesse  Cheek,  of  Des  Moines,  closed 
the  exercises  by  singing  the  " Star  Spangled  Banner." 

Now  the  flags  were  in  the  golden-domed  capitol,  in 
glass  cases,  hermetically  sealed.  There  they  will  remain 
forever,  where  patriots  can  look  upon  them  in  ages  to 
come.  It  was  a  fit  place,  in  this  noble  building,  this  just 
pride  of  a  great  state,  to  put  these  honored  and  priceless 
treasures.  In  rooms  near  them  are  the  written  records 
of  these  soldiers'  deeds;  their  enlistment  papers;  their 
discharges — Ah,  too  oft  the  records  of  their  deaths.  No 
patriot  looking  upon  them  but  his  heart  will  throb  faster 
and  truer;  and  no  recollection  of  the  war  but  will  call  up 
the  memory  of  those  two  great  patriots  and  public  serv 
ants,  Adjutant-General  Baker  and  Governor  Kirkwood, 
who  put  these  records  here  and  who  did  more  than  all 
other  public  men  of  Iowa  to  make  the  path  of  an  Iowa 
soldier  a  path  of  honor.  Near  by,  too,  stands  that  noble 
monument  erected  by  a  grateful  people  in  honor  of  what 
these  men  did  to  save  their  country.  What  trio  of  war 
could  more  appropriately  be  together — these  blood 
stained  flags,  these  glorious  records,  this  monument  of 
bronze  and  stone?  And  when  gazing  on  them,  let  no 
future  patriot  forget  the  words  of  that  great  war  gov 
ernor  when  he  said:  "The  heroism  of  our  soldiers  has 
made  it  a  proud  privilege  to  be  a  citizen  of  Iowa." 

That  many  of  these  war  flags  had  been  preserved  to 
be  honored  on  this  great  occasion  had  been  due  to  the 
patriotic  thoughtfulness  of  an  Iowa  woman.  When  Sen 
ator  John  H.  Gear  was  governor  of  Iowa,  his  wife  saw 
these  flags  being  destroyed  by  dust  and  time.  With  her 
own  hands  and  with  the  aid  of  a  few  friends  she  tenderly 
covered  each  one  with  a  fabric  that  should  protect  them 
and  hold  them  together.  The  act  was  typical  of  the 
universal  patriotism  of  Iowa  women  in  war  times.  The 
women  of  Iowa  made  many  of  these  flags,  and  with 


INTRODUCTION.  21 

tears  and  blessings  gave  them  to  husbands,  brothers, 
sons,  and  lovers  to  carry  into  the  war  for  the  preserva 
tion  of  the  country. 

It  is  the  proud  satisfaction  of  a  whole  people  to  know 
that  these  flags  were  never  dishonored — that  they  were 
bravely,  nobly  borne  through  four  years  of  terrible  con 
flict,  and  at  last  returned  to  the  state  stained  with  the 
patriotic  blood  of  heroes. 

These  flags  belong  to  the  women  of  the  state  not  less 
than  to  the  men.  Their  unrecorded  sacrifices  were  not 
of  blood,  but  of  human  hearts.  Let  them,  too,  share  in 
the  glory  that  these  illustrious  flags  cast  upon  the 
state. 


,.,(3roup  ZEwo... 

No.  1 — Third  Cavalry. 

No.  2- — p°urth  Cavalry. 
No.  3 — Second  Battery. 

No.  4 — Thirteentb  Infantry. 
No.  5 — Tentb  Infantry. 

No.  6 — Eleventh)  Infantry. 
No.  7 — Eigrjtb  Infantry. 
No.  8— Twelfth  Infantry. 
No.  9— Ninth   Infantry. 

No.  10 — Fourteenth  Infantry. 


Governor's  Iproclamation* 


Official  program. 


ot  1boru  Warren  S.  2>un0an,  Xteutenants<5overnor,  on  S>cliV: 
tbc  jflags  to  tbc  Coloc=3Bcarcrs  at  tbe  Brsenal. 


10,  1804» 


State  of  Iowa. 
Executive  Department 


A    PROCLAMATION, 


Twenty-fourth  General  Assembly  of 
the  state  of  Iowa  enacted  a  law  provid 
ing  for  the  better  preservation  of  the 
colors,  standards  and  battle  flags  borne  by 
Iowa  regiments  and  batteries  during  the 
war  of  the  rebellion.  In  compliance  with 
the  provisions  of  said  law,  hermetically 
sealed  glass  cases  have  been  provided  and  placed  in 
appropriate  positions  in  the  corridor  of  the  capitol,  in 
which  the  battle  flags  will  be  preserved.  The  10th  day 
of  August,  1894,  has  been  selected  as  an  appropriate  day 
for  the  transfer  of  the  battle  flags  from  the  state  arsenal 
to  the  capitol  building.  This  great  occasion,  one  of  the 
last  official  acts  of  our  state  in  patriotic  remembrance  of 
that  heroic  army  which  she  sent  forth  to  defend  the  flag 
while  yet  in  the  very  infancy  of  her  statehood,  is  one  in 
which  every  true  citizen  of  Iowa  will  be  deeply  inter 
ested.  The  hardships  and  sacrifices,  the  alternating 
victories  and  defeats,  and  the  final  triumph  and  after 
glory  of  that  army  are  matters  of  history;  but  the  battle- 
flags  around  which  our  Iowa  soldiers  rallied,  and  under 
the  folds  of  which  they  marched  through  smoke  of  battle 
to  victory  or  death,  are  left  to  us,  a  precious  heritage 
toward  which  the  hearts  of  all  lowans  go  forth  in 
grateful  remembrance. 


30  BATTLE  FLAG  DAY. 

Now,  therefore,  I,  Frank  D.  Jackson,  governor  of  the 
state  of  Iowa,  do  hereby  recommend  that  the  10th  day  of 
August,  1894,  be  known  and  referred  to  as  Battle  Flag 
Day,  and  that  it  be  observed  as  a  public  holiday  conse 
crated  to  the  memory  of  the  patriotism  and  valor  of 
Iowa's  soldiers,  living  and  dead. 

Let  the  subject  of  patriotism,  as  represented  in  the  one 
hundred  and  thirty-three  flags  that  led  the  seventy  thou 
sand  Iowa  soldiers  into  battle,  be  the  inspiring  sentiment 
of  the  day,  and  I  hereby  request  that  all  the  people  of 
this  commonwealth  refrain  upon  that  day  from  unneces 
sary  labor  and  join  in  appropriate  exercises  in  com 
memoration  of  this  patriotic  occasion. 

Let  as  many  as  possible  of  the  surviving  members  of 
Iowa  regiments  take  a  personal  part  in  the  exercises  of 
this  day.  Let  regimental  reunions  be  called  to  meet  at 
the  capital  city  on  the  day  previous,  so  that  as  far  as 
possible  these  battle  flags  may  be  carried  by  their  own 
respective  color  bearers,  surrounded  by  the  broken 
fragments  of  regimental  organization. 

With  a  spirit  of  reverent  solemnity,  let  the  people  of 
Iowa  devote  this  day  to  the  consideration  of  the  relations 
of  the  citizen  to  the  flag;  of  liberty  as  distinct  from 
license;  of  loyalty,  patriotism  and  heroism.  Let  us 
again  renew  our  devotion  to  the  flag  —  our  fidelity  to 
the  law. 

IN  TESTIMONY  WHEREOF,  I  have  hereunto  set  my 
hand   and  caused  to   be   affixed   the   great 
»   seal  of  the  state  of  Iowa. 

Done  at  Des  Moines  this  twenty-eighth 
day  of  June,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety-four. 


By  the  Governor: 


Secretary  of  State. 


OFFICIAL  ANNOUNCEMENT  FOR  BATTLE  FLAG  DAY. 


T 


HE  governor  of  Iowa  having,  by  his  proclama 
tion,  designated  August  10,  1894,  as  battle  flag 
day,  and  the  day  on  which  the  flags  and  ban 
ners  carried  by  Iowa  regiments  and  batteries 
during  the  war  of  the  rebellion,  would  be 
transferred  from  the  arsenal  to  the  cases  pro 
vided  for  their  reception  in  the  capitol  build 
ing,  the  following  announcement  of  the  order 
of  exercises  for  the  day  is  made  by  the  committee  on  arrange 
ments  for  the  information  of  all  interested. 

The  line  will  be  formed  for  the  parade  promptly  at  1  o'clock 
p.  M.,  in  the  following  order: 

PLATOON  OF  POLICE. 

DES  MOINES  UNION  BAND. 

GOVERNOR  AND  STAFF. 

FIRST  DIVISION. 

MAJOR  JOHN  C.  LOPER,  COMMANDING. 

COMPANY   "H,"  THIRD  REGIMENT,   I.  N.  G. 

COMPANY  "A,*'  THIRD  REGIMENT,  I.  N.  G. 

BOYS'  BRIGADE. 
SONS  OF  VETERANS. 

SECOND   DIVISION. 

GEO.  A.  NEWMAN,  DEPARTMENT  COMMANDER,  COMMANDING 

DEPARTMENT  OF  IOWA,  G.  A    R., 

INCLUDING  ALL  EX-SOLDIERS,  SAILORS,  AND  MARINES,  OTHER 

THAN  IOWA  SOLDIERS,    WHETHER  MEMBERS  OF  THE 

GRAND  ARMY  OF  THE  REPUBLIC  OR  NOT. 

MAJOR  CARPER'S  DRUM  CORPS. 


32  BATTLE  FLAG  DAY. 

THIRD   DIVISION. 

COLONEL  WILLIAM  T.  SHAW,  COMMANDING. 

GENERAL  H.  H.  WRIGHT,  AID. 

CAPTAIN  C.  H.  SMITH,  AID. 

IOWA  SOLDIERS,  SAILORS  AND  MARINES,  WITH  BATTLE  FLAGS. 

The  column  being  formed  will  proceed  to  the  arsenal,  where 
the  battle  flags  and  banners  will  be  delivered  to  the  color- 
bearers  of  the  respective  regiments  and  batteries  by  Lieuten 
ant- Governor  Warren  S.  Dungan,  late  Lieutenant- Colonel  of 
the  Thirty-fourth  Iowa  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  thence  to  the 
capitol  building,  where  the  following  exercises  will  be  held: 

1.  Call  to  Order,    -  Gen.  J.  W.  Noble,  Presiding  Officer. 

2.  Music,            -  -        Des  Moines  Union  Band. 

3.  Invocation,  -       Rev.  A.  V.  Kendrick. 

4.  Original  Poem,  -  Major  S.  H.  M.  Byers. 

5.  Address,  "  Returning  Flags  to  the  State." 

Major  John  F.  Lacey. 

6.  Response,  -      Governor  Frank  D.  Jackson. 

7.  Martial  Music,  Carper's  Drum  Corps. 

8.  Song,        -  "Star  Spangled  Banner*" 

Mrs.  Jesse  Cheek. 

The  railroads  of  Iowa  have  granted  the  usual  rate  of  one 
fare  for  the  round  trip  from  all  points  in  the  state  to  Des 
Moines,  tickets  to  be  on  sale  August  8th,  9th  and  10th,  up  to 
the  time  of  the  exercises,  and  good  returning  August  llth. 

It  is  most  desirable  that  all  Iowa  soldiers  who  can  possibly 
do  so,  arrive  in  Des  Moines  as  early  as  practicable  Thursday, 
August  9th,  for  the  purpose  of  perfecting  regimental  organiza 
tions,  preparatory  to  the  formation  of  the  parade  on  the  fol 
lowing  day,  by  the  selection  of  regimental  commanders  and 
color-bearers. 

Upon  arriving  in  Des  Moines  all  Iowa  soldiers  should  report 
as  soon  as  possible  at  the  adjutant-general's  office  in  the  capitol 
building,  where  rooms  will  be  provided  for  the  purpose  of 
holding  regimental  meetings. 

Crocker  and  Kinsman  Posts,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Des  Moines,  hav 
ing  generously  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  matter,  the  com 
mittee  can  assure  all  comrades  who  come  that  they  will  be  able 
to  obtain  good  accommodations  at  reasonable  prices. 

Comrades,  come !  It  is  the  last  opportunity  we  shall  have  to 
march  under  the  folds  of  these  sacred,  battle-scarred  emblems 
of  the  patriotism  and  valor  of  Iowa  soldiers,  living  and  dead. 


ADDRESS  OF   LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR  DUNGAN.          33 

Come  join  us  once  more  in  doing  honor,  in  peace,  to  the  dear 
old  flags  that  were  never  dishonored  in  war. 

JNO.  R.  PRIME, 
CHARLES  ALDRICH, 
PHIL.  SCHALLER, 
C.  H.  SMITH, 
J.  P.  PATRICK, 

Committee. 


LIEUT.-GOV,  DUNCAN'S  SPEECH 

On   Delivering  the   Flags  to   Old    Color-Bearers  at  the  Arsenal. 


/COMRADES,  survivors  of  that  splendid  army  of 
over  75,000  men,  furnished  by  the  state  of  Iowa 
during  the  great  rebellion:  This  day  is  to  the 
j*  whole  people  of  the  state,  and  especially  to  you, 
a  day  of  absorbing  interest— a  day  to  become 
historic  in  the  annals  of  our  beloved  state.  You 
have  been  called  together  by  the  proclamation 
of  the  governor  of  the  state,  for  the  purpose  of  removing  these 
old  battle  flags,  borne  by  you  and  your  comrades  on  so  many 
sanguinary  battle  fields,  during  that  momentous  struggle,  from 
their  present  resting  place  in  this  arsenal  to  the  place  prepared 
for  them  in  the  corridors  of  the  new  capitol  of  the  state,  for 
their  better  preservation. 

The  sight  of  these  dear  old  flags  stirs  your  souls  to  their  very 
depths.  They  awaken  afresh  in  your  memories  the  thrilling 
scenes  of  a  third  of  a  century  ago.  The  whole  panorama  of 
that  great  war  passes  in  review  before  you.  You  hear  anew 
the  startling  sound  of  an  enemy's  artillery  firing  upon  a  United 
States  fort.  You  feel  again  the  depths  of  that  emotion  which 
stirred  the  hearts  of  all  loyal  citizens  to  realize  the  danger 
which  threatened  the  union,  and  awakened  in  your  hearts  the 
patriotic  resolve  to  swear  anew  allegiance  to  the  old  flag  and  to 
offer  your  services,  and  your  lives,  if  need  be,  to  preserve  the 
union  bequeathed  to  us  by  the  fathers  of  the  republic. 


34  BATTLE  FLAG  DAY. 

You  recall  the  hour  of  the  greatest  trial  experienced  in  your 
soldier  life — the  hour  of  parting  from  your  wife  and  child;  or 
from  father  and  mother,  sisters  and  brothers,  or  your  sweet 
heart. 

You  remember  the  shout  which  greeted  the  first  flag  received 
by  your  regiment  as  it  was  unfurled  to  the  breeze  in  your  sight. 
It  was  perhaps  the  gift  of  the  patriotic  women  of  your  own 
neighborhood.  The  Thirty-fourth  Iowa  regiment,  to  which  I 
belonged,  went  into  camp  at  Burlington.  The  patriotic  women 
of  that  city  presented  us  with  our  first  regimental  flag. 

In  doing  so  they  charged  us  to  bear  it  bravely  in  the  face  of 
the  foe,  and  never  allow  it  to  be  trailed  in  the  dust  or  to  be  dis 
honored.  We  pledged  them  life,  fortune  and  honor  to  obey 
their  injunction  This  was  an  inspiration  which  the  regiment 
could  never  forget.  How  well  our  pledges  were  redeemed  his 
tory  must  record.  An  evidence  of  our  fidelity,  however,  is  seen 
in  this  battle-scarred  flag — the  one  they  presented  to  us,  and 
one  of  the  three  flags  the  Thirty-fourth  furnished  to  the  collec 
tion  before  us.  If  I  remember  aright,  the  patriotic  women  of 
Burlington  presented  the  First  Iowa  cavalry  and  perhaps  other 
regiments  with  their  first  regimental  flag. 

Comrades,  you  recall  the  battles  in  which  you  were  engaged 
and  in  which  the  stars  and  stripes  were  your  inspiration  to 
noble  deeds.  You  bore  them  until  they  were  torn  and  tattered, 
often  bullet-riven  and  blood-stained,  until  no  longer  fit  for 
service,  and  then,  with  careful  hands,  you  folded  them  up  and 
sent  them  to  the  adjutant- general  of  the  state  for  safe  keeping, 
where  you  find  them  to-day. 

In  recalling  the  heroic  deeds  witnessed  by  you  in  your  army 
life,  nothing  swells  your  breasts  with  greater  pride  than  to 
remember  the  devotion  of  the  color-guard  to  the  flags  and 
standards  in  their  keeping.  Their  heroism  was  witnessed  on 
many  a  battle  field.  One  color-bearer  is  shot  down  and  another 
springs  to  his  place,  raises  the  fallen  flag  and  moves  forward 
only  to  fall  as  the  first,  until  sometimes  three  or  four  have 
fallen  in  a  single  battle.  Witness  the  Second  Iowa  at  Fort 
Donelson;  the  fourth  color-bearer  falls,  but  is  able  to  rise  and 
bear  the  flag  to  the  end  of  the  fight  and  to  victory.  And  that 
color-bearer  is  with  us  to-day  in  the  person  of  Comrade 
Twombly,  late  treasurer  of  state.  Many  instances  of  a  similar 
character  might  be  enumerated,  but  time  will  not  permit. 


ADDRESS   OF   LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR   DUNGAN.         35 

Comrades,  your  hearts  may  well  beat  with  honest  pride 
to-day  when  you  remember  how  gallantly  you  bore  these  flags 
at  Wilson's  Creek,  Vicksburg,  Donelson,  Lookout  Mountain, 
Mission  Ridge,  Atlantic,  Mobile,  Blakely,  Gettysburg,  the 
Wilderness,  Fredericksburg,  and  on  to  victory  at  Appomatox. 
You  kept  your  pledges  to  the  noble  women  who  presented  you 
so  many  of  these  flags.  Our  flags  have  never  been  lowered  or 
disgraced  by  an  Iowa  regiment;  a  few  of  our  flags  were  cap 
tured  by  the  enemy,  but  the  troops  that  bore  them  were  facing 
the  foe  defending  them  with  undaunted  courage.  Here  are  the 
great  body  of  the  flags  we  carried  to  battle  and  to  victory,  our 
witnesses  to  the  people  this  day. 

Look  upon  them!  Not  only  battle-scarred,  but  purple - 
stained  with  the  blood  of  your  fallen  comrades  They  were 
placed  here  for  safe  keeping,  but  soon  they  began  to  fade  and 
waste  away.  Seeing  this,  the  patriotic  care  of  an  Iowa  woman 
partly  with  her  own  hands,  encased  them  in  tarlton  for  their 
preservation — the  wife  of  the  then  governor —Mrs.  JohnH.  Gear. 
This  was  a  partial  protection,  but  it  was  evident  that  they 
could  not  long  be  kept  intact  unless  otherwise  cared  for.  Iowa 
is  proud  of  the  record  made  by  her  citizen  soldiery.  She  has 
shown  this  by  many  liberal  laws  on  her  statute  books.  Proud 
of  her  military  record  and  of  the  fidelity,  valor  and  patriotism 
of  her  sons  and  regarding  these  flags  as  the  best  evidence  of 
that  record,  of  that  valor  and  patriotism,  and  viewing  their 
possession  as  a  sacred  trust,  she  has  prepared  receptacles  in 
the  rotunda  of  our  new  capitol  for  their  deposit,  consisting  of 
hermetically  sealed  glass  cases,  where,  it  is  hoped,  they  may 
be  preserved  in  their  present  condition  for  long  years  if  not 
for  ages  to  come.  There  they  will  be  in  a  position  where  the 
whole  people  of  the  state  may  look  upon  them  as  often  as  they 
pass  through  the  capitol,  patriotic  object  lessons,  not  only  to 
the  present  generation,  but  to  our  children  and  to  our 
children's  children  down  the  ages. 

Color  bearers,  yours  is  the  post  of  honor  to-day;  you  take 
these  old  flags  in  your  hands  for  the  last  time;  you  carry  them 
to  the  capitol  and  deliver  them  into  the  hands  of  the  governor 
of  the  state  who,  on  behalf  of  the  state,  receives  them  at  your 
hands  and  sees  to  their  proper  deposit. 

Comrades  with  us  in  the  great  struggle  for  the  union  who 
served  in  regiments  from  other  states,  we  are  glad  to  welcome 
you  with  us  on  this  occasion.  To  you  is  equal  honor  due  for 


36  BATTLE  FLAG  DAY. 

the  triumph  of  our  cause.  Being  now  citizens  of  Iowa,  we 
know  that  you  share  with  us  the  just  pride  we  feel  in  preserv 
ing,  as  long  as  possible,  our  revered  old  battle  flags. 

Citizens  of  Iowa,  your  presence  with  us  signifies  your  deep 
interest  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  honor  and  welfare  of  our 
beloved  state.  Your  loyalty  to  both  the  state  and  nation  has 
ever  been  conspicuous.  Your  devotion  to  the  flag  has  never 
faltered,  and  your  regard  for  the  union  soldier  has  been  con 
stant.  We  are  proud  of  the  fact  that  the  whole  people  of  the 
state  unite  with  us  in  our  care  for  these  battle  flags,  and  share 
with  us  the  honors  and  the  responsibilities  of  their  safe  pre 
servation. 

One  very  sad  thought  forces  itself  upon  us  as  we  gaze  at 
these  battle-scarred  and  blood-stained  banners — the  thought 
that  so  many  of  the  gallant  men  who  carried  them  to  battle  and 
to  victory  were  not  permitted  to  return  with  them.  All  honor 
to  the  noble  dead  who  *  'died  that  the  nation  might  live. "  And 
are  they  dead  to  us?  An  Iowa  poet  has  said: 

"There  is  no  death!     The  stars  go  down 

To  rise  upon  some  fairer  shore, 
And  bright  in  heaven's  jeweled  crown 
To  shine  forever  more. 

There  is  no  death!     The  dust  we  tread 

Shall  change  beneath  the  summer  showers 

To  golden  rain  or  mellow  fruit, 
Or  rainbow-tinted  flowers. 

There  is  no  death!    An  angel  form 
Walks  o'er  the  earth  with  silent  tread — 

He  bears  our  best  loved  things  away, 
And  then  we  call  them  dead." 

They  shall  live  in  our  hearts  and  memories  and  in  history, 
so  long  as  patriotism  continues  to  be  the  crowning  virtue  of 
good  citizenship. 


No.  1— fifth  Cavalry. 

No.  2 — Seventh  Cavalry. 
No.  3— Third  Battery. 

No.  4— fifteenth  Infantry. 
No.  5 — Sixteenth;  Infantry. 

No.  6 — Seventeenth;  Infantry. 
No.  7 — Eigrjteentb  Infantry. 
No.  8 — Nineteenth  Infantry. 
No.  9 — Twentieth   Infantry. 

No.  10 — Twenty-first  Infantry 


lEyerctees  anb  Hbbresses 

at  tbe  Capitol. 


EXERCISES   AND   ADDRESSES. 


IENERAL  JOHN  W.  NOBLE,  formerly  col 
onel  of  the  Third  Veteran  Volunteer  Cav- 
!^  1  airy  regiment  of  Iowa,  was  introduced  by 
Adjutant-General  Prime,  to  be  presiding 
officer  of  ceremonies  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa, 
battle  flag  day,  August  10,  1894,  and  spoke 
as  follows: 

Comrades  and  Fellow  Citizens:  In  calling  this  meeting  to 
order,  I  wish  first  to  acknowledge  the  great  honor  conferred 
upon  me  by  your  selection  of  myself  as  presiding  officer.  I 
must  refer  it  rather  to  your  partiality  than  to  any  claims  of 
mine  to  distinction  among  so  many  eminent  and  war-worn  vet 
erans.  It  would  have  been  honor  enough  for  me  to  have  met 
with  you  on  this  great  battle  flag  day,  to  have  recalled  the  days 
of  our  united  service  for  our  country,  and  know  that  I  too  was 
an  Iowa  soldier.  I  thank  you  and  ask  your  kind  assistance  in 
discharging  the  duties  of  the  hour. 

By  authority  of  the  state,  given  by  act  and  resolution  of  the 
legislature,  and  in  pursuance  of  the  proclamation  of  the  gov 
ernor,  we  have  assembled  to  place  the  battle  flags  borne  by  the 
soldiers  of  Iowa  in  the  war  for  the  union,  here  in  the  capitol 
and  the  custody  of  the  people  forever. 

It  is  a  solemn,  it  may  be  said,  sacred  occasion,  for  around 
these  flags  what  memories  cling,  and  by  their  presence  what 
thoughts  and  emotions  are  called  forth.  Military  achievement 
and  glory  may  swell  the  heart  with  the  consciousness  of  vic 
tory,  but  the  lapse  of  time  cannot  efface  the  sadness  we  must 
ever  feel  for  the  loss  and  sacrifice  of  those  who  held  those  ban 
ners  aloft  in  the  battle. 


44  BATTLE   FLAG   DAY. 

Said  a  sergeant,  Lowe,  of  the  Thirtieth  regiment,  when  shot 
through  the  body  at  Kenesaw:  "Tell  my  father  and  brothers 
that  whenever  they  see  the  stars  and  stripes  to  remember  that 
I  died  for  the  brave  old  flag." 

In  many  different  regiments  assaulting  the  foe  on  varied 
fields  of  the  war,  man  after  man,  when  one  was  shot  another 
springing  forward,  bore  these  flags  onward,  with  the  all  but 
absolute  knowledge  that  death  would  be  the  result.  We  know 
the  glorious  lives  of  these  standards;  what  lives  they  cost;  what 
lives  and  what  liberty  with  the  power  of  our  union  they  saved. 

But  it  is  not  for  me  to-day  to  cite  the  record  or  speak  at 
length  of  their  history.  Others  will  recount  them  appropri 
ately.  All  that  may  be  said  will  be,  however,  but  the  renewal 
of  memories  to  you,  for  they  are  your  flags,  and  their  history 
is  your  history.  You,  yes,  let  me  say  my  comrades,  we  are  the 
remnants  of  those  who  went  forth  with  these  banners,  and  our 
hearts  will  be  cold  and  our  tongues  forever  silent  ere  we  shall 
cease  to  feel  and  celebrate  the  services,  the  suffering,  the  glory 
and  the  success  of  the  Iowa  soldiers,  and  claim  for  them  and 
their  equally  deserving  comrades  of  the  other  states  who  stood 
shoulder  to  shoulder  with  them,  the  gratitude  and  recognition 
of  our  united  people. 

A  third  of  a  century  ago  the  regiments  of  Iowa  went  forth 
to  battle  for  the  constitution  and  the  union.  The  enterprise 
and  intelligence  of  the  eastern,  and  middle,  and  other  states 
had  peopled  Iowa's  cities  and  prairies.  Than  her  soldiers, 
none  were  more  loyal  and  daring.  Her  volunteers  represented 
fully  the  worth  of  Iowa's  property,  education  and  patriotism. 
Her  arms  were  supported  by  a  well  matured  and  vigorous  man 
hood,  and  her  courage  by  a  nervous  force  and  mental  training 
unsurpassed  among  all  the  hosts  that  marched  to  the  front. 
They  were  encouraged  and  supported,  too,  by  as  God-fearing 
and  land-loving  a  people  at  home,  a  people  as  elevated  in  sen 
timent  and  pure  in  life,  as  this  world  has  known;  free  as  the 
northwest  wind  that  fanned  them,  and  strong  as  the  currents 
of  the  great  rivers  that  bounded  their  territory  and  nourished 
their  land,  forcing  their  ways  through  a  continent  to  the  sea. 
There  was  no  reason  these  volunteers  should  fail  in  duty,  and 
there  was  every  incentive  to  the  marked  and  eminent  success 
they  attained;  alas!  the  achievement  of  death  and  suffering  in 
all  forms  known  to  war,  but,  proudly  we  say  it,  the  attain 
ment  of  victory  and  the  maintenance  of  the  supremacy  and 


EXERCISES   AND   ADDRESSES.  45 

continuance  of  these  United  States.     That  service  was  grandly 
performed. 

The  First  regiment  of  Iowa  Volunteers,  on  August  10th, 
thirty-three  years  ago  this  day,  sustained  the  brunt  of  the  battle 
at  Wilson's  Creek,  and  thirteen  other  regiments,  after  braving 
and  achieving  all  that  to  have  served  with  Grant  and  Sherman 
implies,  went  on  the  march  to  the  sea,  and  were  at  the  close  of 
the  war  in  the  grand  review  at  Washington.  Sheridan  knew 
other  of  our  regiments  as  among  his  most  reliable  in  the  great 
campaign  of  the  Shenandoah  valley,  as  he  had  long  before 
gained  his  first  distinction  in  connection  with  an  Iowa  cavalry 
regiment  in  Tennessee.  Who  that  speaks  of  Donelson,  Pitts- 
burg  Landing,  luka  or  Corinth,  Raymond,  Champion  Hill,  Black 
River  or  Vicksburg,  Lookout  Mountain,  Missionary  Ridge, 
Resaca,  Allatoona,  Kenesaw  and  Atlanta,  Savannah  or  Colum 
bia,  Winchester,  Cedar  Creek  or  Fisher's  Hill,  Red  River  or 
Mobile,  Montevallo,  Ebenezer  Church,  Selma  and  Columbus, 
Franklin,  Nashville,  Blue  Mills,  Wilson's  Creek,  Kirksville, 
Springfield,  Pea  Ridge  or  Prairie  Grove,  Osage  and  Independ 
ence,  or  any  of  the  fields  of  the  west  and  south;  who  that  marks 
the  rise  to  greatness  and  renown  of  the  most  distinguished  of 
our  generals;  who  that  knows  how  the  shackles,  placed  upon 
the  commerce  of  the  Mississippi,  were  burst  asunder,  and  its 
avenues  once  more  opened  from  river  shore  to  ocean  coast;  who 
that  reckons  up  the  courage  and  endurance  and  all-pervading 
love  of  country  that  met  at  every  point  the  advancing  and 
boasting  hosts  of  secession  and  disloyalty;  who  that  estimates 
the  most  important  factors  that  maintained  the  constitution  and 
sustained  the  flag,  but  must  and  gladly  does  recognize  the  con 
tinued  and  most  efficient  services,  from  the  first  to  the  last  of 
the  war  for  the  union,  of  gallant,  devoted  and  heroic  sons  of 
Iowa? 

We  are  now  to  place  in  shrines  of  safety  the  battle  flags  of 
these  troops.  How  bright  they  were  when  they  went  forth; 
with  what  loving  and  patient  hearts  the  mothers  and  daughters, 
sweethearts  and  wives  gave  them  to  the  keeping  of  men  then 
young  and  full  of  hope,  but  all  alike  volunteering  life  and  for 
tune  for  God  and  humanity.  How  soon  the  bloody  record  of 
that  sacrifice  began;  how  constantly  it  increased.  The  roll  of 
battle  and  death  came  sullenly  on  through  the  long  four  years. 
But  our  flags  were  still  there.  And  though  every  shell  or 
bomb  that  rent  the  regiment  on  the  field  went  on  until  it 


46  BATTLE   FLAG  DAY. 

desolated  a  hearthstone  away  back  in  this  fair  state,  the  ranks 
were  firmly  closed  again,  and  the  sobs  of  affection  were  smoth 
ered  in  prayers  for  the  flag.  How  the  havoc  increased;  how 
dreadful  was  the  number  of  the  dead;  how,  even  now,  the  soul 
shrinks  at  the  recital  of  their  names.  But  it  was  for  the  land 
we  love;  it  was  to  do  or  die  for  our  country.  The  re-enlist 
ments  came;  experience  had  shown  the  reality  and  sternness  of 
the  duty  originally  assumed  in  the  first  outburst  of  enthusiasm, 
but  the  cause  had  not  yet  been  won.  It  was  a  war  of  principle. 
The  flags  were  still  there,  the  symbols  of  that  principle,  and 
they  were  to  remain  there  until  wreathed  with  victory.  The 
support  from  home  was  redoubled;  the  gray  beards  went  to 
guard  duty  at  points  distant  from  home,  and  from  the  state. 
The  sanitary  commission  and  hospital  nurses  strove  to  render 
the  camp  more  endurable,  and  soothe  and  support  the  sick  and 
wounded.  The  colored  troops  were  organized  and  officered  by 
Iowa  soldiers.  But  the  thought  to  give  over  the  strife  came 
never  to  any  in  Iowa. 

There  was  to  be  but  one  result — the  supremacy  of  the  national 
government.  The  union  as  it  was  and  shall  ever  be. 

Victory  came  at  last  in  every  state  and  on  every  field.  The 
regiments  returned.  Their  dead,  how  many!  and  sleeping  how 
far  away!  But  ever  to  be  remembered  as  those  who  had  given 
the  highest  proof  of  constancy.  The  wounded  and  the  wasted 
returned,  and  were  enfolded  to  the  heart  of  a  grateful  state  and 
nation,  and  never  will  it  be  possible  to  reward  them  too  highly. 
One  of  the  brightest  pages  of  American  history  will  be  that  of 
the  gratitude  of  our  people  for  its  veterans 

And  the  flags  were  borne  home  again  and  inscribed  with 
names  of  successful  battles  for  the  republic  that  have  passed 
into  history  as  the  most  skillful  military  achievements  for  the 
worthiest  cause  the  world  has  ever  known. 

And  here  are  the  flags! 

Over  them  is  the  capitol  of  Iowa,  and  over  all  the  constitu 
tion  of  the  United  States. 

The  work  of  the  fathers  has  been  preserved.  The  genera 
tion  that  supported  it  is  passing  away  as  the  generation  that 
created  it  has  long  since  departed. 

Men  may  die,  but  principles  never.  The  love  of  representa 
tive  republican  government,  of  constitutional  freedom,  is  as 
strong  to-day  among  our  people  as  it  ever  was.  The  govern 
ment  that  put  down  the  great  rebellion  against  the  constitution 


EXERCISES  AND  ADDRESSES.  47 

is  as  strong  as  ever,  and  its  people  love  it  as  they  ever  have. 
It  will  not  be  surrendered  to  insurrection;  to  unauthorized 
assumption  of  authority,  or  to  the  supercilious  presumption 
of  individuals. 

The  great  guarantees  of  life,  liberty  and  prosperity,  wrought 
out  by  so  much  sacrifice,  will  be  preserved  and  enforced  under 
the  constitution  as  it  is,  and  the  instrumentalities  it  controls. 
It  is  capable  and  its  energy  will  meet  and  surpass  every  peril. 

"Fear  not  each  sudden  sound  and  shock, 
It  is  of  the  wave  and  not  the  rock. " 

It  will  prevail — "the  least  as  feeling  its  care,  and  the  great 
est  as  not  exempt  from  its  power." 

These  flags  will  tell  to  the  rising  generations  of  Iowa,  what 
their  fathers  and  mothers  did  and  suffered.  Other  like  symbols 
will  be  borne  into  many  a  civil,  and  it  may  be,  military  contest 
by  our  immediate  successors  and  their  posterity.  Rent  and 
stained  they  too  will  be  placed  away  in  honor  as  we  to-day 
enshrine  those  here,  but  there  will  be  ever  floating  from  the 
summit  of  the  capitol  that  one  supreme  symbol  of  our  national 
glory  which,  though  fresh  and  new,  and  dancing  on  the  soft 
winds  of  summer,  will  be  prouder  because  it  has  met  adversity; 
brighter  because  it  has  been  blackened  by  battle  and  blood; 
and  there  ever  cheerfully  waving  in  those  future  years  and 
ages,  because  it  is  "  the  flag  of  the  free  hearts'  only  home  "  and 
the  emblem  of  constitutional  American  liberty. 

Comrades,  I  call  this  meeting  to  order. 

Attention!     Battalions! 


Following  General  Noble's  address  the  Des  Moines 
Union  band  rendered  some  appropriate  music,  after  which 
Rev.  A.  V.  Kendrick  delivered  an  eloquent  and  impres 
sive  invocation,  following  which  Major  S.  H.  M.  Byers 
read  the  following  original  poem: 


48  BATTLE  FLAG   DAY. 


THE  BATTLE  FLAGS  OF  IOWA. 


BY  S.   H.   M.   BYERS. 

Tread  softly  here.     'Tis  valor's  home: 

Sons  of  a  noble  west; 
Beneath  the  splendors  of  this  dome 

'Tis  fit  your  banners  rest. 
Oh!  remnant  of  a  mighty  host 

That  marshalled  for  the  fray, 
Nor  feared  war's  dreadful  holocaust, 

Be  welcome  here  to-day. 

Bear  once  again  the  flags  ye  bore 

'Midst  howling  shot  and  shell, 
And  squadrons'  charge  and  cannons'  roar, 

And  shrieks  and  shouts  of  hell; 
And  touch  yon  silken  flags  again, 

And  kiss  yon  shining  stars, 
And  hold  them  to  your  breast  as  when 

You  held  them  in  the  wars. 

Rewaken  memories  of  the  past 

That  long  have  slumbered  still, 
And  hear  once  more  the  bugle's  blast, 

And  feel  the  battle's  thrill. 
And  hear  again  the  shout,  "they  fly," 

The  cry  the  victors  gave — 
Oh!  never  yet  was  such  a  cry 

Heard  this  side  of  the  grave. 

And  if  some  comrade's  heart  blood  stain 

The  tattered  stripes  and  stars, 
And  naught  of  the  old  flag  remain 

But  faded  battle  scars — 
Think  not  'twas  vain  that  comrade  stood, 

His  sacrifice  too  high — 
For  every  drop  of  freedom's  blood 

Is  written  in  the  sky. 

The  angels  meet  with  smiling  eyes 

The  comrades  that  ye  gave, 
And  welcome  into  Paradise 

The  spirits  of  the  brave  ; 
And  whether  in  the  battle's  smoke, 

Or  in  some  prison  drear, 
God's  angels  heard  the  hearts  that  broke, 

And  answered  with  a  tear. 


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Oh!  stars  and  stripes  of  Donelson, 

And  Shiloh's  bloody  flags, 
Think  ye  there's  naught  of  all  ye  won 

Save  these  poor  faded  rags? 
Tlrnk  ye  no  memories  of  the  past 

Can  stir  our  hearts  to-day? 
Nor  cry  "to  arms,"  nor  bugle's  blast, 

Nor  battle's  fierce  array? 

Oh!  banners  that  Atlanta  knew — 

And  Vicksburg's  frowning  heights, 
With  bloody  hands  they  welcomed  you 

In  half  a  hundred  fights. 
Think  ye  the  hands  that  bore  you  then 

On  Chattanooga's  brow, 
On  Corinth's  field,  and  Belmont's  plain. 

Can  be  forgotten  now? 

Cursed,  doubly  cursed,  who  would  forget 

That  these  torn  banners  here 
With  his  own  father's  blood  were  wet, 

With  his  own  mother's  tear: 
That  when  on  Lookout's  heights  was  borne 

Amidst  the  battle's  shout 
Yon  stars  and  stripes,  now  old  and  torn, 

His  brother's  life  went  out. 

Oh!  flags  that  never  knew  defeat, 

Nor  led  a  conquest  war, 
That  waved  o'er  many  a  fort  and  fleet, 

And  never  lost  a  star: 
Come  there  not  sometimes  in  the  night, 

When  all  the  world  is  still, 
The  heroes  of  luka's  fights, 

The  men  of  Champion's  Hill? 

Assemble  round  you  once  again, 
In  uniforms  of  blue, 

A  thousand  spirits  of  the  slain 
That  gave  their  lives  for  you? 

From  out  their  graves  at  Winchester- 
See  ye  their  columns  wheel? 

From  Pea  Ridge,  and  from  Wilson's  Creek, 
The  stormers  of  Mobile? 

Come  they  not  smiling  once  again, 

About  your  table-round, 
To  sit  there  in  the  moonlight,  when 

There  is  no  battle  sound? 
All  tell  of  dangers  half  forgot, 

Of  battles  long  since  by, 
And  how  for  liberty  tis  'not 

So  hard  a  thing  to  die? 


50 


BATTLE  FLAG  DAY. 

Oh!  land  with  patriots  such  as  these 

Securely  can'st  thou  rest — 
And  fear  no  foes,  on  land  or  seas, 

No  traitors,  east  or  west. 
Oh!  Thou  that  kept  these  heroes  brave 

When  the  dark  conflict  came, 
Make  us  but  worthy  what  they  gave, 

And  worthy  of  their  fame. 


-group  jfour.,. 

No.  I— Twenty-second  Infantry. 
No.  2— Twenty-third  Infantry. 
No.  3 — Twenty-fourth  Infantry. 
No.  4— Twerjty-fiftb  Infantry. 
No.  5 — TweQty-sixtb  Infantry. 

No.  6— Twenty-seventb  iQfantry. 
No.  7 — Twerjty-eigbtb  Infantry. 
No.  8 — Twenty-ninth  IQfantry 
No.  9— Thirtieth   InfaQtry. 
No.  10— Eighth  Cavalry. 


HON.  JOHN   F.  LACEY'S  ADDRESS 

Returning    the    Flags    to    the    Permanent    Custody    of    the    State. 


"A  LTHOUGH  nearly  a  third  of  a  century  has 
passed  since  the  civil  war,  its  battle  flags  are 
still  the  objects  of  popular  love  and  devotion. 
And  so  we  find  a  common  patriotic  impulse 
spontaneously  moving  towards  their  preserva 
tion.  The  legislature  of  Iowa  has  enacted 
this  sentiment  into  law.  Animated  by  the 
same  spirit,  private  citizens  and  survivors  of  regiments  having 
such  flags  in  their  custody  have  cheerfully  added  them  to  those 
heretofore  held  by  the  adjutant-general  of  the  state. 

The  citizens  of  Iowa  are  now  assembled  to  formally  transfer 
to  the  keeping  of  the  commonwealth  as  among  its  most  sacred 
possessions  the  flags  that  Iowa  courage  and  Iowa  patriotism 
followed  in  defense  of  the  union.  To  the  safe  keeping  of  our 
great  commonwealth  we  entrust  these  banners.  Their  cost  is 
priceless,  and  their  history  glorious  beyond  expression.  As  a 
soldier  in  the  past  and  as  a  citizen  and  civilian  in  the  present, 
to  me  has  been  accorded  the  honor  of  speaking  for  these  mute 
trophies.  Upon  a  soil  dedicated  to  liberty  forever,  we  meet  to 
recall  the  memories  with  which  these  emblems  shall  be  asso 
ciated  in  history.  Memories  arise,  tender,  sad,  fierce,  exult 
ing;  but  leading  up  in  the  end  to  forgiveness,  reconciliation, 
unity  and  peace.  These  dumb  memorials  of  the  past  are  more 
eloquent  than  any  spoken  words.  In  their  holy  presence  par 
tisanship  is  silent  and  only  sentiments  of  patriotism,  wide  as 
the  nation  itself,  may  rise  to  the  lips.  The  nation  is  no  longer 
welded  by  bands  of  iron  and  shafts  of  steel.  'The  silken  threads 
of  these  flags  soothe  and  bind  us  together  heart  and  soul  as  they 
rustle  gently  as  the  wings  of  doves  in  the  free  wind  of  heaven. 


56  BATTLE   FLAG  DAY. 

The  motto  of  Iowa,  inscribed  by  one  of  Iowa's  honest  sons  upon 
the  great  monument  of  Washington,  never  spoke  the  senti 
ments  of  her  people  more  fully  than  they  do  to-day:  "Iowa: 
Her  affections,  like  the  rivers  of  her  borders,  flow  to  an  insep 
arable  union." 

As  we  meet  here  to-day,  to  Almighty  God  our  hearts  should 
be  lifted  in  quiet  but  earnest  gratitude.  Let  us  have  no  malice 
and  indulge  in  no  mere  exultation  over  the  victories  which 
render  this  celebration  possible  To  the  erring  states  that 
sought  to  rend  that  flag,  to  the  brethren  who  sought  to  substi 
tute  two  rival  and  hostile  nations  for  the  friendly  union  of  the 
states,  we  give  the  old  flag  as  their  emblem  as  well  as  ours. 
Many  a  star  has  been  shot  from  the  colors  before  us,  but  the 
states  which  those  stars  represent  never  in  fact  have  lost  their 
true  and  rightful  places  in  the  union.  It  still  remains  an  indis 
soluble  union  of  indestructible  states.  With  high  and  patriotic 
spirit  let  us  trace  the  history  of  our  star-spangled  banner. 
Flags  are  chosen  to  speak  for  those  who  carry  them.  We 
shoot  at  a  hostile  standard  and  salute  a  friendly  one.  The  stars 
and  stripes  were  chosen  as  the  national  ensign,  September  3, 
1777,  and  in  eight  days  afterwards  floated  over  the  victorious 
field  of  Brandywine  and  soon  after  graced  the  surrender  of 
Burgoyne.  They  cheered  Washington  at  Valley  Forge  and 
waved  proudly  over  Yorktown  when  independence  triumphed 
at  the  last.  This  flag  of  thirteen  stripes  and  a  union  with  blue 
with  as  many  white  stars  as  there  are  states  in  the  union,  took 
its  present  precise  form  April  4,  1818.  But  new  as  it  is,  it  is 
already  ancient  among  the  banners  of  the  world.  It  is  older 
than  the  present  flags  of  France,  Spain,  England  and  Germany. 
But  if  we  measure  its  age  by  the  deeds  that  it  glorifies,  it  would 
run  back  into  an  antiquity  remote  indeed.  It  was  carried  to 
the  utmost  southern  point  by  American  enterprise  when  the 
Antarctic  continent  at  the  south  pole  was  discovered.  It  has 
been  planted  at  the  highest  latitude  on  the  edge  of  the  open 
sea  that  looks  forever  in  solemn  silence  at  the  motionless  polar 
star.  It  has  been  borne  by  a  Stanley  to  the  sources  of  the 
Congo  and  the  Nile,  where  it  greeted  the  enduring,  daring  and 
patient  Livingston  in  the  chosen  scenes  of  his  self-sacrificing 
attempt  to  Christianize  the  very  depths  of  degradation  and 
human  slavery.  Over  the  sea,  in  every  port,  it  has  gladdened 
the  sky.  It  has  been  planted  alike  on  earth's  wildest  and  most 


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inaccessible  peak,  and  upon  the  sea's  remotest  and  most  solitary 
shore. 

A  stranger  may  look  upon  these  emblems  and  say :  '  'What 
are  they  anyhow  V  Nothing  but  flags  nothing  but  a  few  pieces 
of  silk — some  red  and  white  stripes — some  white  stars  in  a  blue 
field— and  that  is  all." 

"A  primrose  by  the  river's  brim, 
A  yellow  primrose  is  to  him: 
And  it  is  nothing1  more!" 

We  do  not  analyze  a  tear,  but  think  rather  of  the  emotions 
of  joy  or  grief  that  bid  it  flow.  The  stripes,  the  stars,  the  silk 
or  the  bunting,  are  the  material  things  a  flag  is  made  of  but 
the  love,  the  hopes,  the  memories  of  the  people,  which  are 
symbolized  by  their  national  banner,  are  the  true  flag  after  all. 
They  constitute  its  soul  A  woven  or  embroidered  eagle,  a 
cross,  a  crown,  a  dragon,  a  lion;  or  some  imaginary  beast  or 
bird  taken  from  the  field  of  heraldry  became  the  badges  of  the 
nations  of  the  olden  time.  But  the  new  and  bright  republic  in 
its  day  of  early  hope  and  faith,  appealed  to  heaven,  and  looking 
up  into  the  sky  choose  the  stars  themselves  as  the  emblem  of 
the  land  of  the  free  and  the  home  of  the  brave. 

In  the  capitals  of  Europe  the  stranger  looks  upon  the  crown 
jewels  as  typical  of  the  pride  and  glory  of  ancient  monarchies. 
But  here  the  pilgrim  finds  no  material  thing  so  prized  as  the 
country's  flag,  and  none  so  dear  as  the  battle  flag  of  the 
republic.  The  splendid  capitol  of  two  millions  of  people  will 
hold  no  treasure  more  worthy  of  its  keeping  than  the  banners 
we  deposit  here  to-day. 

At  one  time  they  gleamed  in  the  sunlight  fresh  and  beauti 
ful,  their  colors  as  bright  as  the  flowers  of  the  prairies,  and  he 
who  looked  upon  their  array  could  realize  how  "terrible  was 
an  army  with  banners."  But  to-day  they  are  dearer  than  when 
bright  and  gorgeous  they  were  intrusted  to  the  keeping  of  the 
young  soldiers  of  our  state.  They  have  been  carried  without 
dishonor,  they  are  returned  without  disgrace;  on  their  silken 
folds  are  inscribed  the  names  of  many  battles  in  which  they 
have  been  borne  in  defense  of  national  existence,  and  the 
record  is  one  in  which  all  who  participated  may  take  an  honest 
pride  Those  names  are  crumbling  with  decay,  but  the  results 
of  these  battles  are  projected  into  the  history  of  the  world,  and 
countless  ages  will  yet  feel  their  influence.  The  victory  was 
not  the  triumph  of  Iowa,  nor  of  the  North,  but  of  the  whole 


58  BATTLE   FLAG  DAY. 

union,  and  in  the  future  of  our  united  country  the  stars  of  the 
south  will  shine  with  the  same  lustre  as  those  of  the  north. 

From  the  center  to  the  sea  the  true  American  looks  only  for 
what  is  best  for  all  of  our  common  and  reunited  family. 

The  riotous  anarchist  may  raise  his  voice  and  defy  the  power 
of  the  government  for  a  day,  but  the  mighty  nation,  serene  in 
its  strength,  confident  in  its  honor,  erect  in  its  justice,  calls  for 
peace  and  obedience  and  its  order  is  obeyed. 

To  the  youth  here  let  me  say:  Do  you  know  what  these  flags 
mean?  They  mean  a  nation  saved,  its  unity  upheld,  its  honor 
preserved,  its  power  unbroken,  and  all  men  in  its  borders  for 
ever  free.  Do  you  know,  my  young  friend,  how  many  men  have 
died  defending  these  colors?  Around  these  banners  as  centers 
have  raged  the  tempests  of  fire  in  the  greatest  battles.  From 
1861  to  1865  Iowa  was  not  the  mighty  commonwealth  of  2,000,- 
000  souls  that  she  is  to-day.  Her  railways  and  her  cities  were 
only  in  embryo.  But  from  her  sparsely  settled  prairies  76,242 
men  enlisted  in  the  army  of  the  union.  Nine  regiments  of  cav 
alry  and  four  batteries  of  artillery  bore  these  guidons.  Forty- 
eight  regiments  of  white  and  one  of  black  infantry  carried  the 
name  and  fame  of  Iowa  in  the  great  campaigns  and  battles 
of  the  rebellion.  Before  the  war  ended  12  368  men,  the  young 
est,  the  strongest  and  bravest,  lay  in  their  graves,  and  8,848 
were  shot  in  the  defense  of  these  very  flags  which  you  honor 
to-day.  Disease  has  made  fierce  havoc  in  those  ranks  in  the 
days  of  peace,  and  now  age  is  striking  its  certain  blows  upon 
the  grey-headed  column  that  still  remains.  Thousands  of  miles 
of  weary,  dusty  and  dangerous  march  are  here  recorded. 
Through  the  pestilence  of  the  swamp,  by  the  deadly  ambush, 
in  every  compaign  the  standard  of  the  Iowa  soldier  was  borne 
where  duty  called.  In  the  clouds  of  Lookout  Mountain  and 
the  fogs  of  Yazoo,  by  the  Shenandoah  and  the  Mississippi; 
under  Sheridan  or  Grant;  under  Hooker  or  Dodge;  under  Rice 
or  Crocker;  under  Sherman  or  Canby;  under  Wilson  or  Noble; 
under  A.  J.  Smith  or  Steele;  under  the  gallant  leaders  that  I 
cannot  take  the  time  to  name,  wherever  danger  lurked  and  men 
of  courage  were  needed,  Iowa  men  were  given  the  post  of 
honor.  Some  Iowa  flags  were  captured,  but  their  loss  was  never 
coupled  with  dishonor.  Their  capture  cost  the  captors  dear. 
So  glorious  was  our  defense  that  our  enemies,  now  our  brethren, 
have  sent  them  back  to  be  carried  in  this  memorial  of  peace. 


EXERCISES   AND   ADDRESSES.  59 

And  here  they  are  to-day  on  this  anniversary  of  the  battle  of 
Wilson's  Creek,  and  a  day  that  brings  a  flush  of  honest  pride 
to  the  cheek  of  every  citizen  of  the  Hawkeye  state,  and  recalls 
a  gallant  regiment  voluntarily  remaining  beyond  its  term  of 
enlistment  to  stand  by  Lyon  on  that  bloody  field  to  teach  the 
world  what  Iowa  troops  were  made  of.  We  look  with  full  heart 
and  swimming  eyes  upon  these  colors  in  their  last  march. 

Rains  have  drenched  them; 
Powder  smoke  has  stained  them: 
Storms  have  tried  and  torn  them: 
The  tooth  of  time  has  eaten  them: 
Age  has  faded  them. 

But  the  glory  of  the  deeds  they  commemorate  will  never 
fade  from  earth.  They  are  but  fragments  of  silk,  frayed,  soiled 
and  torn  in  a  hundred  battles  and  marches,  but  they  represent 
those  scenes  by  flood  and  field  where  the  struggle  for  peace  and 
union  were  fought,  and  fought  to  the  end.  The  very  stars  in 
their  courses  fought  for  union  and  liberty.  When  soldiers  defy 
death  they  drive  him  into  the  ranks  of  the  enemy,  and  men  defy 
death  when  they  fight  under  the  banner  of  their  choice  for  the 
land  they  love.  To  the  dead  who  fell  by  land  and  sea  we  give 
honor  to-day.  This  festival  of  the  flags  is  one  of  special  honor 
to  the  dead,  and  to  none  more  so  than  those  gallant  men  whose 
last  resting  place  is  unknown.  In  a  single  tomb  at  Arlington 
are  deposited  the  remains  of  over  2,000  of  these  unknown 
heroes. 

When  Iowa's  beautiful  monument,  in  honor  of  her  soldiers, 
arises  near  this  capitol,  let  there  be  inscribed  a  tablet  to  her 
unknown  dead.  With  the  soldiers  of  foreign  birth  who  laid 
down  or  hazarded  their  lives  for  the  land  of  their  adoption, 
and  with  the  black  man  who  dared  death  for  the  government 
which  had  done  him  nothing  but  wrong,  we  share  to-day  the 
honors  of  victory  and  the  benefits  of  a  free  and  united  country. 

A  nation's  emblem  should  be  appropriate.  Ours  is  the  stars 
of  heaven.  The  confederacy  chose  the  southern  cross  to  adorn 
its  battle  flag,  a  constellation  invisible  even  from  the  most 
southern  limits  of  the  United  States.  Australia,  with  inverted 
seasons  and  alien  sky,  might  well  adopt  this  group  of  stars  as 
its  standard,  but  it  was  not  a  fitting  symbol  for  any  part  of  the 
American  union.  To  the  men  who  fought  against  us  then  we 
now  extend  the  hand  of  fellowship.  For  their  gallant  dead  we 
sorrow  as  well  as  for  our  own. 


60  BATTLE   FLAG   DAY. 

"  Under  the  sod  and  the  dew, 

Waiting"  the  judgment  day, 
Under  the  laurel  the  blue, 
Under  the  willow  the  gray." 

Theirs  was  a  misplaced  sentiment  which  put  the  state  against 
the  nation.  Our  soldiers  loved  Iowa  no  less,  but  they  loved  the 
nation  more,  and  we  rejoice  that  we  are  brothers  once  again. 
Out  of  all  this  turmoil  and  strife  good  has  come  in  the  provi 
dence  of  God.  Prom  the  body  of  the  lion  honey  was  taken, 
and  from  the  tunnel  at  Anderson ville  dug  by  our  soldiers  in  an 
unavailing  attempt  at  freedom,  flows  now  a  perpetual  spring 
amid  the  graves  of  a  national  cemetery.  And  in  the  recent 
domestic  troubles  through  which  we  have  just  passed,  the  quiet 
loyalty  of  the  states  so  lately  arrayed  against  the  government 
has  been  a  gratifying  and  pleasing  spectacle. 

But  while  we  forgive  and  accept  the  erring  states  back  again 
into  the  power  as  well  as  the  benefits  of  peace  and  unity,  we 
will  never  fail  to  teach  that  the  cause  of  the  union  and  liberty 
was  then  and  will  be  forever  right.  Let  us  forgive  but 
remember. 

To  the  prisoner  of  war  nothing  was  so  dear  as  the  flag  of  his 
country,  and  on  returning  from  the  hostile  lines  its  sight  has 
cheered  many  a  soldier's  heart,  and  made  him  forget  his  hunger 
and  his  rags.  Let  me  recall  an  incident.  On  the  fourth  day 
of  July,  1863,  when  Pemberton  was  marching  out  with  the  dis 
armed  defenders  of  Vicksburg,  when  Meade  was  following  up 
his  victory  at  Gettysburg  and  the  hills  of  Helena  were  echoing 
with  the  repulse  of  Price  and  Holmes,  the  prisoners  at  Libby 
wanted  to  celebrate  the  day  of  independence.  Surrounded  by 
guards  on  all  sides,  to  celebrate  the  Fourth  of  July  had  its 
difficulties,  and  among  them  was  the  fact  that  no  flag  floated  in 
Richmond  but  the  hated  confederate  standard.  To  celebrate 
independence  day  without  the  stars  and  stripes  seemed  like  a 
hollow  mockery.  The  old  flag  must  be  had  at  all  hazards,  and 
three  soldiers,  one  wearing  a  red  shirt,  another  a  white,  and  a 
third  a  blue  one,  stripped  themselves  in  the  cause  of  patriotism 
and  the  day  was  celebrated  with  no  feature  omitted.  The  cap 
tive  ensign  fluttering  within  the  prison  walls  spoke  of  home,  of 
country  and  liberty.  The  materials  were  humble,  but  the  flag 
was  worthy  of  taking  its  place  among  the  sacred  memorials  we 
are  about  to  deposit  here  to-day. 


EXERCISES   AND   ADDRESSES.  61 

By  the  presence  of  these  colors  I  am  reminded  of  the  tender 
memory  of  Nathaniel  B.  Baker,  adjutant-general  of  Iowa,  and 
of  the  story  he  used  to  tell.  To  him  is  mainly  due  the  gather 
ing  and  preservation  of  these  sacred  relics.  One  day,  in  the 
early  years  after  the  war,  as  he  was  sitting  in  his  office,  which 
was  decorated  by  these  battle  flags,  a  lady  dressed  in  deep 
mourning  came  in  and  asked  to  see  the  flag  of  the  Twentieth 
Iowa.  The  general  pointed  it  out  to  her  and  she  stood  for 
awhile  in  silence  and  meditation.  It  hung  above  her  reach. 
"May  I  touch  it?"  she  said,  and  General  Baker  moved  a  table 
below  it,  upon  which  she  climbed,  and,  pressing  the  silken  folds 
to  her  bosom  and  lips,  she  burst  into  tears  and  said:  "Pardon 
my  emotion,  General,  but  my  only  boy  died  under  this  flag/' 

Here,  I  am  told  (for  I  have  not  counted  them),  we  have  138 
flags  of  all  kinds.  They  are  about  to  be  delivered  to  the  gov 
ernor  of  Iowa  and  his  successors  in  office,  as  a  sacred  trust. 
Henceforth  they  will  remain  as  a  memorial  of  the  past  and  an 
encouragement  for  the  future.  In  many  a  church  and  abbey  in 
the  old  world  hang  the  moldering  relics  of  bygone  years  and 
our  young  nation  now  treasures  up  her  memorials  of  these  con 
tests  none  the  less  brave. 

The  Iowra  of  1860  writh  her  674,913  people,  has  now  become  a 
commonwealth  of  2,000,000  souls.  In  our  prairie  state  are 
nearly  half  as  many  English-speaking  people  as  trod  the  planet 
in  the  days  of  Shakespeare.  Our  state  is  young,  but  the  possi 
bilities  of  her  future  fill  our  hearts  with  hope  and  wrorthy 
pride.  No  blood  or  treasure  has  been  spared  to  build  and 
cement  Iowa,  the  beautiful,  as  a  part  of  the  great  temple  of 
national  unity.  We  have  no  anticipation  of  her  future  that  we 
do  not  merge  into  that  greater  glory,  the  sisterhood  of  all  the 
states.  To-day  closes  a  chapter  of  the  record  of  the  war.  We 
deposit  these  silent  yet  eloquent  memorials  forever  in  the 
capitol.  To  the  governor  of  our  commonwealth  we  deliver 
them  for  the  sacred  keeping  of  coming  generations,  of  a  grate 
ful,  an  honest,  a  patriotic  and  a  Christian  people.  And  now,  as 
we  lift  our  hearts  in  silent  gratitude  to  Almighty  God,  let  us 
one  and  all  say,  "God  bless,  God  bless  Old  Glory  forever." 


No.  1— Thirty-first  Infantry. 

No.  2 — Thirty-second  Infantry. 
No.  3— Thirty -third  Infantry. 
No.  4 — Thirty-fourth  Infantry. 
No.  5— Tbirty-fiftb  Infantry. 
No.  6— Thirty-sixtb  Infantry. 
No.  7 — Thirty-eigbtb  Infantry. 
No.  8— Tbirty-ninth  Infantry. 
No.  9— fortieth   Infantry. 

No.  10— Sixtieth  U-  S-  Infantry. 


GOV.  FRANK  D.  JACKSON 

On    Accepiing    the    Flags    in    Behalf    of    the    State. 


ETERAN  heroes  of  Iowa:  We  are  all  proud  of 
the  great  achievements  accomplished  by  the 
state  of  Iowa  during  her  half  century  of  exist 
ence,  but  let  me  assure  you,  my  veteran 
friends,  that  in  the  minds  and  hearts  of  this 
great  and  intelligent  people  of  Iowa,  it  all 
dwindles  into  insignificance  beside  the  mighty 
heart- swelling  of  glory  and  pride  which  every 
loyal  citizen  of  Iowa  takes  in  the  glorious  record  of  deeds  of 
valor  of  that  gallant  young  army,  which  over  thirty  years  ago 
she  sent  forth  under  the  bright  folds  of  these  now  tattered  and 
faded  battle  flags. 

The  guns  of  Fort  Sumter  had  hardly  died  away  before  an 
outraged  people  resolved  to  resent  the  insult  made  and  to  save 
the  union.  How  well  do  I  remember  the  stirring  scenes  that 
followed  in  the  echoes  of  that  fatal  shot.  The  very  air  was 
charged  with  the  spirit  of  patriotism.  The  fife  and  drum  fur 
nished  the  inspiration  of  liberty,  while  millions  of  loyal  citizens 
kept  step  to  the  music  of  the  union.  Great  war  meetings  were 
held  in  every  community  and  crowded  the  largest  halls  to  over 
flowing.  Our  cities  and  towns  were  thronged  with  a  loyal  and 
liberty-loving  people.  From  the  farms  and  workshops,  from 
the  counters  and  from  the  offices  came  the  thousands  ready  to 
sacrifice  their  all  for  the  glory  and  perpetuity  of  their  country. 
I  can  hear  those  glorious  songs  of  liberty  now.  I  can  hear  the 
burning  words  of  patriotism.  I  can  see  the  thousands  of 
young  men  in  those  great  war  meetings  pushing  their  way 
down  through  the  excited  crowds,  and  amid  storms  of  enthusi 
asm  march  out  under  the  folds  of  their  country's  flag  and  sign 


68  BATTLE  FLAG  DAY. 

the  enlistment  rolls  to  go  forth  to  battle  for  their  country's 
honor  and  the  nation's  life. 

You,  my  brave  friends,  remember  it  all.  You  were  all  there. 
You  remember  how  a  few  days  later  the  company  assembled  in 
the  public  square  to  be  mustered  in.  Everybody  was  there  for 
miles  around  to  see  the  boys  march  away.  The  fathers  and 
mothers  were  there.  The  sisters  and  brothers,  and  sweet 
hearts  were  all  there.  And  amidst  the  cheers  and  tears,  the 
sobs  and  heart-breakings,  that  gallant  young  company  wheeled 
into  line,  keeping  step  to  the  roll  of  the  beating  drum  and 
under  the  bright  folds  of  these  faded  and  tattered  flags  here 
to-day,  marched  away  to  battle  and  to  die. 

Four  long  and  weary  years  the  loyal  hearts  at  home  waited 
and  prayed.  With  what  earnestness  did  they  scan  the  papers 
for  the  latest  news  from  the  front,  and  when  the  news  came  of 
another  great  battle,  with  what  breathless  eagerness  did  their 
eyes  follow  down  the  long  list  of  dead  and  wounded  to  see  if 
some  of  their  own  loved  ones  had  fallen.  How  the  hearts 
throbbed  with  joy  over  the  news  of  a  battle  won.  How  they 
sank  in  anguish  and  despair  at  the  information  of  defeat  and 
death.  And,  finally,  what  joy  and  happiness  fills  the  land 
when  news  is  received  that  rebellion  is  crushed,  that  the  flag 
of  our  country  is  saved;  that  the  boys  are  coming  home  again. 
And  how  they  waited  and  hoped  and  prayed  for  the  return  of 
those  boys. 

And  here  they  come  up  the  street  keeping  step  to  the  roll  of 
the  same  old  drum;  under  the  folds  of  the  same  old  flag,  now 
riddled  and  rent  with  shot  and  shell  and  stained  with  dust  and 
blood,  and  yet  a  flag  redeemed  and  saved  to  float  forever  over 
one  country  and  a  united  people.  Everybody  was  there  with 
outstretched  arms  to  welcome  the  boys  back  again.  The  old 
fathers  and  mothers  were  all  there.  And  what  a  welcome! 
And  with  it  all  what  sadness  and  anguish! 

The  company  wheels  into  line  to  be  mustered  out.  Here  and 
there  are  vacant  places  of  those  who  never  returned.  Here  and 
there  are  those  with  one  leg  or  one  arm ;  others  sick  and  emaci 
ated,  just  from  the  hells  of  Andersonville  and  Libby. 

Veteran  soldiers  of  Iowa,  let  me  assure  you  that  from  the 
beginning  to  the  end  of  that  mighty  struggle  the  great  loyal 
heart  of  Iowa  was  always  with  you  and  for  you.  It  was  with 
you  just  thirty- three  years  ago  to-day  when  the  rebel  forces  at 
Wilson's  Creek  formed  ten  different  times  and  with  glistening^ 


EXERCISES   AND   ADDRESSES.  69 

bayonets  charged  and  recharged  over  the  ground  strewn  with 
Iowa's  dead  and  wounded,  and  ten  times  were  hurled  back  to 
death  and  defeat  by  an  Iowa  regiment  which  stood  there  like  a 
wall  of  adamant.  How  the  great  heart  of  Iowa  throbbed  and 
swelled  with  joy  and  pride  over  this  first  heroic  defense  of  the 
honor  of  our  state  and  the  glory  of  our  flag. 

The  heart  of  Iowa  was  with  you  at  Shiloh,  where  Iowa  sol 
diers  fought  with  a  heroism  that  is  nursed  only  in  the  cradle  of 
liberty,  a  heroism  and  bravery  never  surpassed  in  all  the  war 
history  of  the  world. 

It  was  with  you  at  Donelson,  where  the  flag  of  an  Iowa  regi 
ment  waves  in  everlasting  glory  and  honor.  The  heart  of  Iowa 
was  with  you  at  Belmont  and  Pea  Ridge,  at  Corinth  and  Prairie 
Grove,  at  Missionary  Ridge  and  Atlanta.  It  was  with  you  as 
you  laid  there  in  the  trenches  before  Vicksburg.  Every  heart 
throb  of  the  great,  loyal  people  of  Iowa  vibrated  down  into  the 
very  center  of  rebeldom,  giving  encouragement  and  cheer  to 
the  boys  from  Iowa.  That  great  heart  is  still  with  you,  veteran 
heroes  of  Iowa — only  it  is  a  bigger  and  a  stronger  heart.  It's 
the  heart  of  more  than  two  millions  of  people,  extending  to  you 
here  to-day  God's  blessings  along  with  its  lasting  love,  its  grat 
itude  and  its  honor. 

What  a  pleasure  it  would  be  for  me  here  to-day,  had  I  the 
time,  to  rehearse  the  glorious  deeds  of  valor  of  Iowa  regiments 
and  Iowa  soldiers.  My  first  thought  was  to  select  some  of  the 
principal  engagements  during  the  war  in  which  the  Iowa  troops 
participated,  but  after  a  careful  investigation  of  the  conspic 
uous  part  Iowa  troops  took  in  nearly  all  the  great  battles  of  the 
rebellion,  I  can  tell  you  frankly  that  my  task  would  be  much 
shorter  and  lighter  were  I  to  relate  to  you  that  part  of  the  war's 
history  in  which  Iowa  troops  were  not  participants.  Oat  of  a 
population  of  a  little  over  six  hundred  thousand,  the  young 
state  of  Iowa  sent  forth  over  seventy  thousand  to  the  defense 
of  the  flag.  ' '  It  was  Iowa  soldiers  that  marched  from  the  Des 
Moines  river  to  the  Atlantic  ocean,  and  penetrated  the  interior 
of  every  rebel  state  in  the  union.  It  was  an  Iowa  regiment 
that  marched  into  South  Carolina,  tore  down  the  rebel  flag 
from  her  capitol,  hoisted  the  stars  and  stripes,  and  brought  the 
treasonable  trophy  back  to  Iowa,  and  it  is  here  to-day,  the 
property  of  our  state." 

In  the  language  of  a  gallant  Iowa  soldier,  from  the  begin 
ning  until  the  end  the  story  of  Iowa  valor  was  the  same  as  that 


70  BATTLE   FLAG   DAY. 

of  tried  comrades  from  other  states.  Not  greater,  for  all  were 
brave;  but  the  Iowa  soldiers  were  conspicuously  so.  Their 
fortune  kept  them  at  the  front;  they  were  the  first  everywhere. 
These  tattered  and  precious  battle  flags  floated  at  the  front  in 
every  battle  and  were  always  found  where  tne  conflict  was  the 
thickest  and  the  danger  greatest.  At  Wilson's  Creek,  luka, 
Donelson  and  Shiloh,  at  Vicksburg,  Atlanta,  Allatoona,  Chatta 
nooga  and  Mobile,  wherever  Grant  and  Sherman  led  they  fol 
lowed,  and  to  victory.  They  were  the  heroes,  the  history 
makers  of  the  state;  their  deeds  will  live  on  forever.  From  the 
beginning  to  the  end  these  scarred  and  tattered  flags  floated 
over  as  brave  an  army  as  ever  trod  the  face  of  the  earth;  over 
a  hundred  battle  fields  they  waved  in  triumph. 

Ours  was  a  war  for  freedom;  a  war  for  the  unchaining  of 
millions  of  human  beings.  Fortunate  the  people  to  whom  is 
given  such  a  glorious  opportunity  to  strike  a  blow  for  human 
liberty.  And  this  is  the  record  of  but  one  young  and  vigorous 
state  in  behalf  of  freedom. 

Increase  these  135  battle  flags  by  those  furnished  by  other 
loyal  states  of  this  union,  until  they  reach  into  the  thousands, 
and  then  merge  them  all  into  one  great  and  glorious  flag  of 
liberty;  increase  the  awful  sacrifice  of  human  life  until  the 
blood  of  a  million  men  has  been  freely  poured  upon  the  altar  of 
our  civil  liberty,  add  to  this  a  treasure  of  more  than  two  billion 
of  dollars,  and  then  you  have  only  the  tangible  sacrifices  made 
by  the  loyal  people  of  this  great  union  in  behalf  of  liberty. 

What  is  this  great  flag  of  ours  for  which  so  much  blood  and 
treasure  has  been  spent?  It  is  the  emblem  representing  the 
will  of  sixty  millions  of  American  freemen,  the  uncrowned  king 
of  this  great  republic.  I  saw  a  regiment  of  soldiers  a  few  days 
ago  assemble  for  parade.  I  saw,  as  a  distinction  of  honor,  a 
company  selected  to  escort  the  colors  to  the  parade  grounds 
and  present  them  to  the  regiment,  to  the  music  of  "The  Star 
Spangled  Banner."  I  saw  the  flag  escorted  between  two 
platoons  of  soldiers  in  front  of  the  line  and  received  at  "present 
arms  "  by  the  entire  regiment — the  highest  honor  that  is  given 
in  military  tactics. 

That  flag  is  the  uncrowned  king  of  the  American  army.  In 
line  of  review,  when  passing  before  the  president  of  the  United 
States  or  the  chief  executive  of  the  state,  the  flag  is  received 
with  greater  honor  and  distinction  than  is  accorded  any  human 
being  on  the  face  of  this  earth.  With  uncovered  heads  it  is 


EXERCISES   AND    ADDRESSES.  71 

received,  because  it  stands  for  the  majesty  of  law  and  for  the 
will  of  the  people.  Surely  that  flag  is  the  uncrowned  king  of 
the  American  people. 

The  flag  of  governments  other  than  republics  may  represent 
the  will  of  some  of  the  people,  but  invariably  there  is  a  person 
ality  along  with  it  represented  in  the  arbitrary  will  of  the 
ruler.  Thank  God  the  stars  and  stripes  has  no  personality  in 
it.  It  represents  only  the  will  of  all  the  people.  The  chief 
executive,  who  is  selected  temporarily  to  administ  r  and  enforce 
the  law,  has  no  more  personality  in  our  flag  than  has  the  humblest 
citizen  who  stands  beneath  its  protective  folds.  It  is  therefore 
a  matter  of  surprise  and  regret  that  after  more  than  a  hundred 
years  of  national  existence  there  are  still  citizens  of  this 
republic  who  fail  to  comprehend  the  relations  of  the  citizen  to 
the  flag.  It  would  seem  as  if  the  prejudice  of  centuries  against 
the  personality  of  the  flag  in  despotic  forms  of  government 
still  exists  here  in  America,  and  exists,  too,  against  a  flag  that 
has  no  personality  whatever.  The  stars  and  stripes  stand  for 
law,  and  that  law  made  by  the  people,  and  in  the  making  of 
that  law  every  voter  in  this  great  land  has  had  an  exact  and 
equal  opportunity.  How  foolish  it  is  then  for  American  citi 
zens  to  hurl  personal  epithets  against  the  chief  executive  of 
the  nation  or  state  who  is  temporarily  charged  with  the  duty 
of  maintaining  the  honor  of  the  flag  by  enforcing  the  law 
which  the  people  themselves  have  made.  A  wanton  violation 
of  law,  whether  by  one  person  or  a  thousand,  is  not  an  insult 
to  the  executive  of  a  state  or  nation,  but  an  insult  to  the  people 
themselves  who  made  the  law.  And  that  insult  is  no  greater 
so  far  as  defying  the  will  of  the  people  and  insulting  the 
majesty  of  their  law,  in  the  commission  of  the  crime  of  murder, 
than  it  is  in  the  commission  of  a  simple  breach  of  the  peace. 
The  will  of  the  people  has  been  insulted,  the  majesty  of  law 
defied  the  flag  spurned  and  humiliated,  as  much  in  the  one 
case  as  in  the  other.  Violation  of  law  has  been  fixed  by  the 
will  of  the  people  as  the  starting  point  for  putting  the  machin 
ery  in  motion  for  the  enforcement  of  law.  Not  a  violation 
resulting  in  bloodshed,  not  a  violation  that  destroys  millions  of 
property,  but  violation  of  law.  No  discretionary  power  is 
given  the  executive  to  wait  for  bloodshed  or  destruction  of 
property  before  the  machinery  for  enforcement  shall  be  used. 
The  commencement  of  violation  is  the  signal  for  starting  in 
motion  the  machinery  for  its  enforcement. 


72  BATTLE   FLAG   DAY. 

Unfortunate  it  is  for  the  American  people  that  there  seems 
to  be  a  sentiment  among  some  of  them  in  direct  opposition  to 
their  own  laws;  a  sentiment  demanding  the  executive  to  wait 
until  somebody  is  killed  or  some  vast  amount  of  property 
destroyed  before  the  enforcement  of  law  begins.  Study  and 
reflection  on  behalf  of  these  people,  I  am  convinced,  will  result 
in  the  gradual  advancement  of  this  unwise  public  sentiment  in 
some  localities,  up  to  those  very  wise  laws,  which  these  same 
people  have  made,  which  require  the  executive  to  commence 
the  enforcement  of  the  law  at  the  instant  law  is  violated.  The 
insult  to  the  flag  and  the  people's  law  is  no  greater,  made  by 
the  red  handed  anarchists  in  placing  the  torch  where  it  destroys 
life  and  property,  than  it  is  by  the  so-called  industrial  army 
traveling  through  the  country  intimidating  and  holding  up 
communities  for  food  and  shelter.  Both  are  violations  of  law, 
both  wanton  insults  to  the  people  who  made  the  law.  A  public 
sentiment  which  shall  demand  a  rigid  enforcement  of  all  law 
by  the  executive  of  the  nation,  of  states  and  of  counties,  is 
essential  to  the  progress  and  perpetuity  of  our  American 
government.  A  public  sentiment  which  fails  to  demand  the 
same  swift  and  rigid  enforcement  of  law  against  a  thousand 
violators  that  it  does  against  a  single  individual  is  a  sickly  sen 
timent  indicative  of  governmental  weakness,  a  maudlin  senti 
mentality,  dangerous  alike  to  the  freedom,  happiness,  and 
prosperity  of  the  people.  I  am  convinced  that  the  strong  and 
healthy  sentiment  of  the  American  people  demands  that  all  the 
laws  shall  be  obeyed,  and  that  they  shall  be  rigidly  enforced 
whether  it  be  against  a  single  violator  or  a  mob  of  ten  thousand. 

The  blood  and  treasure  expended  to  preserve  this  mighty 
fabric  of  civil  liberty,  is  too  awful  a  sacrifice  to  have  it  endan 
gered  now  by  a  weak  and  sickly  sentiment.  A  government, 
the  best  ever  devised  by  mankind  for  the  protection  of  the 
people's  liberty,  a  government  which  gives  the  poor  man 
better  opportunities  for  advancement  in  life  than  any  other 
government  known  to  civilization,  must  not  and  will  not  be 
endangered  and  its  usefulness  impaired  by  the  failure  of  a 
small  portion  of  the  American  people  to  discern  the  difference 
between  liberty  in  its  broadest  sense  and  license.  Patriotism 
and  loyalty  in  the  enforcement  of  all  law  by  the  American 
people  means  the  continual  and  lasting  glory  of  the  American 
republic. 


EXERCISES   AND   ADDRESSES.  73 

Like  an  echo  of  the  past  come  the  words  of  inspiration  from 
the  immortal  Lincoln:  "Let  reverence  of  law  be  breathed  by 
every  mother  to  the  lisping  babe  that  prattles  on  her  lap;  let 
it  be  taught  in  the  schools,  seminaries  and  colleges;  let  it  be 
written  in  primers,  spelling-books  and  almanacs;  let  it  be 
preached  from  pulpits  and  proclaimed  in  legislative  halls,  and 
enforced  in  courts  of  justice.  In  short  let  it  become  the  polit 
ical  re  igion  of  the  American  people." 

These  loved  and  honored  battle  flags — how  dear  they  are  to 
the  heart  of  Iowa.  Once  so  bright  and  beautiful,  now  so  ragged 
and  tattered  and  faded.  But  we  love  them  revere  them  and 
honor  them  for  what  they  are  and  for  all  they  represent.  We 
love  them  because  that  grand  old  patriot,  Iowa's  war  governor, 
sent  you  forth  under  the  folds  of  these  bright  flags  to  battle 
and  to  die  for  liberty.  We  love  them  because  their  bright  stars 
caught  the  last  dying  look  of  Iowa  heroes  on  the  field  of  glory. 
We  love  them  writh  all  their  rags  and  tatters,  because  they  are 
stained  with  the  blood  of  Iowa's  noblest,  bravest  and  best.  We 
love  them  because  they  waved  in  triumph  over  a  hundred  battle 
fields  and  because  they  always  stood  for  liberty  and  for  right. 

In  again  assuming  the  care  and  protection  of  these  precious 
emblems  of  liberty,  let  me  assure  you,  veteran  heroes,  that 
the  state  of  Iowa  fully  realizes  and  appreciates  their  priceless 
value.  Here  in  Iowa's  beautiful  capitol  they  shall  remain  for 
ever,  forming  a  sacred  altar  around  which  will  gather,  in  loving 
remembrance,  the  grateful  hearts  of  more  than  two  millions  of 
people.  As  long  as  their  faded  folds  shall  hang  together  they 
shall  teach  the  generations  that  are  to  follow,  the  loyalty  and 
bravery  of  Iowa's  soldiers.  And  when  the  hand  of  time  shall 
have  brushed  away  the  last  faded  shred  of  these  precious  and 
priceless  emblems,  their  memory  shall  remain  forever  an  inspir 
ation  to  deeds  of  honor,  of  heroism  and  of  glory. 


Xfat  ano  Description  of 


....Howa  Battle 


deposited  in  tbe  Capitol  JBuflfcfng 
Bugust  10,  1894. 


LIST  AND  DESCRIPTION  OF  IOWA  BATTLE  FLAGS. 


No.     1.     National  flag,  First  infantry;  inscribed:  "Springfield." 
Turned  over  by  state  historical  society,  August 
1894. 

No.  2.  National  flag,  Second  infantry;  inscribed:  "2nd  Regt. 
Iowa  Vols. "  Official  report  of  battle  at  Ft.  Doiiel- 
son  by  Colonel  Tuttle,  says:  I  cannot  omit  in  this 
report  an  account  of  the  color  guard.  Color  Ser 
geant  Doolittle  fell  early  in  the  engagement,  pierced 
by  four  balls  and  dangerously  wounded.  The  colors 
were  then  taken  by  Corporal  Page,  Company  B, 
who  soon  fell  dead.  They  were  again  raised  by 
Corporal  Churcher,  Company  I,  who  had  his  arm 
broken  just  as  he  entered  the  entrenchments, 
when  they  were  taken  by  Corporal  Twombly, 
Company  F,  who  was  almost  instantly  knocked 
down  by  a  spent  ball,  but  immediately  rose  and 
bore  them  gallantly  to  the  end  of  the  fight.  Not  a 
single  man  of  the  color  guard  but  himself  was  on 
his  feet  at  the  close  of  the  engagement. 

No.  3.  National  flag,  Second  infantry;  inscribed:  "Fort  Don- 
elson,  Shiloh  and  Corinth." 

No.    4.     National  flag,  Second  infantry. 

No.  5.  National  flag,  Second  infantry;  inscribed:  "Fort  Don- 
elson." 

No.    6.     Banner,  Second  infantry. 

No.     7.     Banner,  Second  infantry. 

No.  8.  National  flag,  Third  infantry;  inscribed:  "Blue  Mills, 
Shiloh,"  "Siege  of  Corinth,  Matamora,"  "Siege 
of  Vicksburg,  Jackson."  This  flag  was  captured 
before  Atlanta,  July  22, 1864,  by  Cleburne's  division, 


78  BATTLE   FLAG   DAY. 

and  presented  by  Cleburne  to  Miss  Laura  J.  Mass- 
engale  (now  Mrs.  Pickett)  who  returned  the  flag 
to  the  adjutant-general  of  Iowa,  August  7,  1883. 

No.  9.  National  flag,  Third  infantry;  inscribed:  "Blue  Mills, 
Shiloh,  Siege  of  Corinth,  Matamora,  Vicksburg, 
Jackson,  Atlanta,  Sherman's  March  to  the  Sea, 
Savannah,  the  Carolinas." 

No.  10.  National  flag,  Fourth  infantry;  inscribed:  "Pea  Ridge, 
March  7  and  8,  1862." 

No.  11.     Banner,  Fourth  infantry. 

No.  12.     Banner,  Fourth  infantry. 

No.  13.     National  flag,  Fifth  infantry. 

No.  14.  Banner,  Fifth  infantry;  inscribed:  "5th  Regt.  Iowa 
Vet.  Vol.  Infantry." 

No.  15.     Banner,  Fifth  infantry. 

No.  16.  Banner,  Sixth  infantry;  inscribed:  "6th  Regt.  Iowa 
Veteran  Vols. " 

No.  17.     National  flag,  Sixth  infantry. 

No.  18.     National  flag,  Sixth  infantry. 

No.  19.     National  flag,  Seventh  infantry. 

No.  20.     National  flag,  Seventh  infantry. 

No.  21.     Banner,  Seventh  infantry. 

No.  22.  Banner,  Eighth  infantry;  inscribed:  "8th  Iowa  Vet 
eran  Regt.  Infantry." 

No.  23.     National  flag,  Eighth  infantry. 

No.  24.  National  flag,  Eighth  infantry;  from  the  citizens  of 
Memphis,  July,  1864. 

No.  25.     Banner,  Eighth  infantry. 

No.  26.     Banner,  Ninth  infantry. 

No.  27.  Banner,  Ninth  infantry;  received  from  sanitary  fair 
of  Dubuque,  1864,  and  presented  to  the  adjutant- 
general  September,  1889 

No.  28.  National  flag,  Ninth  infantry;  extract  from  history  of 
regiment:  ''On  the  22d  of  May  (1863)  in  line  with 
the  whole  army  of  the  Tennessee,  the  regiment 
went  first  up  to  the  assault.  Its  colors  went  down 
a  few  feet  from  the  rebel  works  after  the  last  one 
of  its  guard  had  fallen,  either  killed  or  wounded, 
and  its  dripping  folds  were  drawn  thence  from 
under  the  bleeding  body  of  its  prostrate  bearer." 

No.  29.  National  flag,  Ninth  infantry;  inscriptions:  "Pea 
Ridge,  Chickasaw  Bayou  Arkansas  Post,  Jackson, 


LIST   OF  FLAGS.  79 

Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Cherokee,  Tuscumbia,  Look 
out  Mountain,  Missionary  Ridge,  Ringgold,  Resaca, 
Dallas,  New  Hope,  Big  Shanty,  Kenesaw  Moun 
tain,  Chattahoochie,  Atlanta,  Jonesboro,  Lovejoy 
and  Eden  Station,  Savannah,  Congaree  Creek, 
Columbia,  Bentonville. " 

No.  30.  Banner,  Tenth  infantry;  inscribed:  ''Tenth  Iowa 
Veterans." 

No.  31.  Banner,  Tenth  infantry;  inscribed:  "10th  Iowa  Vet 
eran  Vols. " 

No.  32.     National  flag,  Eleventh  infantry. 

No.  33.     National  flag,  Eleventh  infantry. 

No.  34.     Banner,  Eleventh  infantry. 

No.  35.  Banner,  Twelfth  infantry;  inscribed:  "Our  liberties 
we  prize  and  our  rights  we  will  maintain." 

No.  36.  Banner,  Twelfth  infantry;  inscribed:  "12th  Iowa  Vet 
eran  Vol.  infantry." 

No.  37.  National  flag,  Twelfth  infantry;  inscribed:  "Fort  Don- 
elson,  bhiloh,  Corinth." 

No.  38.  National  flag,  Thirteenth  infantry;  inscribed:  "Siege 
of  Corinth,  luka,  Corinth,  Vicksburg,  Atlanta, 
Savannah,  Columbia,  Bentonville,  Raleigh."  The 
first  United  States  flag  raised  over  the  state  house 
at  Columbia,  S.  C.,  by  Lieut. -Col.  J  C.  Kennedy, 
Thirteenth  Iowa  Veteran  Volunteer  infantry,  Feb 
ruary  17,  1865. 

No.  39.  National  flag,  Fourteenth  infantry;  inscribed:  "Donel- 
son,  Shiloh,  Corinth." 

No.  40.  Banner,  Fourteenth  infantry;  turned  over  to  adjutant- 
general,  under  authority  from  war  department 
dated  December  6,  1864,  by  adjutant  Fourteenth 
infantry. 

No.  41.  National  flag,  Fifteenth  infantry;  inscribed:  "Cor 
inth;"  turned  over  to  adjutant-general  by  L.  S. 
Tyler,  1891. 

No.  42.  National  flag,  Fifteenth  infantry;  from  L.  S.  Tyler, 
1891. 

No.  43.  National  flag,  Fifteenth  infantry;  inscribed:  "Shiloh, 
Siege  of  Corinth,  luka,  Corinth,  Nicka  Jack,  July 
4th,  5th  and  7th,  1864.  Vicksburg,  Atlanta,  July 
21st,  22nd,  and  28th,  1864.  Mediden,  Atlanta  and 
Savannah. " 


80  BATTLE   FLAG   DAY. 

No.  44.  National  flag,  Fifteenth  infantry;  inscribed:  "Siege 
of  Corinth,  Corinth,  Vicksburg,  Monroe,  Meriden, 
Bolton's  Cross  Roads,  Big  Shanty,  Kenesaw,  Nicka 
Jack,  Chattahoochie,  Before  Atlanta  July  20,  21, 
22,  and  28.  Jonesboro,  Lovejoy's  Station,  Atlanta, 
Snake  Creek  Gap,  Savannah,  Pocotaligo,  Salke- 
hatchie,  Orangebury,  Columbia,  Fayetteville,  Ben- 
tonville,  Goldsboro,  N.  C." 

No.  45.  Banner,  Fifteenth  infantry;  inscribed:  "15th  Iowa 
Veteran  Vols." 

No.  46.     Banner,  Fifteenth  infantry;  from  L.  S.  Tyler,  1891. 

No.  47.     Banner,  Fifteenth  infantry. 

No.  48.  National  flag,  Sixteenth  infantry;  captured  with  the 
regiment  July  22,  1864,  before  Atlanta;  returned 
to  regiment  during  reunion  in  1883  by  General 
Govan  and  turned  over  to  adjutant-general  by  Col. 
A.  H.  Saunders  in  1884. 

No.  49.     National  flag,  Sixteenth  infantry. 

No.  50.     Banner,  Sixteenth  infantry. 

No.  51.     Banner,  Sixteenth  infantry. 

No.  52.     National  flag,  Seventeenth  infantry. 

No.  53.  National  flag,  Seventeenth  infantry;  turned  over  by 
Col.  D.  B.  Hillis  in  1883. 

No.  54.  National  flag,  Seventeenth  infantry;  inscribed:  "Siege 
of  Corinth,  May  28,  1862;  luka,  September  19,  1862; 
Corinth,  October  3  and  4,  1862;  Raymond,  May  12, 
1863;  Jackson,  May  14,  1863;  Champion  Hills,  May 
16,  1863;  Siege  of  Vicksburg.  May  22,  1863;  Fort 
Hill,  July  26,  1863;  Mission  Ridge,  November  25, 
1863;  Atlanta,  July  27  and  28,  1864;  Tilton,  October 
13,  1864;  Savannah,  December  21,  1864;  Colum 
bia,  February  17,  1865;  Bentonville,  March  18-22, 
1865." 

No.  55.     Banner,  Seventeenth  infantry 

No.  56.     Banner,  Seventeenth  infantry. 

No.  57.     Banner,  Eighteenth  infantry. 

No.  58.     Banner,  Eighteenth  infantry. 

No.  59.     National  flag,  Eighteenth  infantry. 

No.  60.     Banner,  Nineteenth  infantry. 

No.  61.  National  flag,  Nineteenth  infantry;  "Prairie  Grove, 
Ark.,  Dec.  7th,  1862;  Van  Buren.  Ark  ,  Dec.  28, 
1862;  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  July  4,  1863;  Yazoo,  Miss., 


LIST   OF  FLAGS.  81 

July  13,  1863;  Sterling  Farm,  La.,  Sept.  29,  1863; 
Brownsville,  Texas,  Nov.  6,  1863." 

No.  62.  National  flag,  Nineteenth  infantry;  inscribed:  "Prairie 
Grove,  Ark.,  Dec.  7,  1862;  Van  Buren,  Ark.,  Dec. 

28,  1862;  Vicksburg,   Miss.,  July  4,  1863;   Yazoo 
City,   Miss.,   July  13,  1863;  Sterling  Farm,  Sept. 

29,  1863;  Brownsville,  Texas,  Nov.  6,  1863." 
No.  63.     National  flag,  Twentieth  infantry. 

No.  64.     Banner,  Twentieth  infantry. 

No.  65.     Banner,  Twentieth  infantry. 

No.  66.     National  flag.  Twenty-first  infantry. 

No.  67.  Banner,  Twenty-first  infantry;  inscribed:  "Port  Gib 
son,  Champion  Hills,  Black  River  Bridge,  Hunts- 
ville,  Vicksburg,  Jackson." 

No.  68.     Banner,  Twenty-second  infantry. 

No.  69.  Banner,  Twenty-second  infantry.  Received  from  war 
department,  1894,  through  Hon.  J  H.  Gear. 

No.  70.  National  flag,  Twenty -second  infantry.  Received  from 
J.  C.  Schrader,  August,  1894. 

No.  71.     Banner,  Twenty-third  infantry. 

No.  72.  National  flag,  Twenty- third  infantry;  inscribed:  "Port 
Gibson.  May  1st,  1863;  Champion  Hills,  May  16, 
1863;  Black  River  Bridge,  May  17,  1863;  Millikens 
Bend,  June  7,  1863;  Vicksburg,  May,  18th  to  22nd, 
Vicksburg,  July  4,  1863;  Jackson,  July  9th  to  16th, 
1863;  Fort  Esperanza,  November  27  and  28,  1863." 

No.  73.  National  flag,  Twenty-fourth  infantry;  inscribed: 
"Port  Gibson,  Champion  Hills,  Jackson,  Sabine 
Cross  Roads.  Opegan,  Fishers  Hill,  Cedar  Creek." 

No.  74.     National  flag,  Twenty-fifth  infantry. 

No.  75.     National  flag,  Twenty-fifth  infantry. 

No.  76.     Banner  flag,  Twenty-fifth  infantry. 

No.  77.     Banner,  Twenty-fifth  infantry. 

No.  78.     Banner,  Twenty-fifth  infantry. 

No.  79.     Banner,  Twenty-sixth  infantry. 

No.  80.     National  flag,  Twenty-sixth  infantry. 

No.  81.     National  flag,  Twenty- sixth  infantry. 

No.  82.  National  flag,  Twenty- seventh  infantry;  inscribed: 
"Little  Rock,  Sept.  10,  1863;  Ft.  De  Russey,  La., 
May  18,  1864;  Ditch  Bayou,  Ark.,  July  6,  1864; 
Tupelo,  Miss.,  July  14,  1864;  Old  Town  Creek,  July 


B2  BATTLE   FLAG   DAY. 

15,  1864;  Nashville,  Dec.  15,  1864;  Siege  and  Cap 
ture  of  Blakely,  April  2  to  9,  1865." 

No.  83.     Banner,  Twenty -seventh  infantry. 

No.  84.     Banner,  Twenty -seventh  infantry. 

No.  85.  National  flag,  Twenty-eighth  infantry;  inscribed: 
"Port  Gibson,  Edwards  Station,  Champion  Hills, 
Vicksburg,  Jackson." 

No.  86.     Banner   Twenty-eighth  infantry. 

No.  87.     Banner,  Twenty-eighth  infantry. 

No.  88.  National  flag,  Twenty-eighth  infantry;  inscribed: 
' '  Port  Gibson  Edwards  Station  Champion  Hills, 
Vicksburg,  Jackson,  Sabine  Cross  Roads,  Cane 
River,  Middle  Bayou,  Mansura,  Yellow  Bayou, 
Opequan,  Fishers  Hill,  Cedar  Creek." 

No.  89.  Banner,  Twenty-ninth  infantry.  Turned  over  by  Col. 
Thomas  H.  Benton,  Jr.,  August  25,  1865. 

No.  90.  National  flag,  Thirtieth  infantry.  Turned  over  by 
Col.  A.  Roberts,  June  17,  1865. 

No.  91.  National  flag,  Thirtieth  infantry;  inscribed:  "Battles 
participated  in  by  the  30th  Regt  Iowa  Vol.  Infan 
try,  Chickasaw  Bayou,  Arkansas  Post,  Battle  of 
19th  and  22d  of  May  and  Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Jack 
son,  Brandon,  Cherokee  Station,  Lookout  Moun 
tain,  Missionary  Ridge,  Ringgold,  Resaca,  Dallas, 
Kenesaw  Mountain,  Nicka  Jack,  Before  Atlanta 
July  22nd  to  28th,  Jonesboro,  Lovejoy's  Station, 
Bentonville,  and  Raleigh." 

No.  92.     National  flag,  Thirty-first  infantry. 

No.  93.     Banner,  Thirty-first  infantry. 

No.  94.     Banner,  Thirty-first  infantry. 

No.  95.  National  flag,  Thirty-first  infantry.  Chickasaw  Bayou, 
Arkansas  Post,  Fourteen  Mile  Creek,  Vicksburg 
assaults  19th  and  22d  of  May,  Jackson,  Canton, 
Cherokee  Station,  Tuscumbia,  Lookout  Mountain, 
Mission  Ridge,  Ringgold,  Resaca,  Dallas,  New 
Hope  Church,  Kenesaw  Mountain,  Chattahoochie 
River,  Decatur,  Atlanta,  Jonesboro,  Lovejoy,  Little 
River,  Savannah,  Congaree  Creek,  Columbia,  Ben 
tonville  and  Raleigh. 

No.  96.  National  flag,  Thirty- second  infantry;  Cape  Girardeau, 
Bayou  Metaire,  Fort  De  Russey,  Pleasant  Hills, 
Marksville,  Yellow  Bayou,  Lake  Chicot,  Tupelo, 


LIST   OP  FLAGS.  83 

Old  Town  Creek,  Nashville,  Brentwood  Hills,  Ft 
Blakely;  from  the  ladies  of  Waterloo,  1864. 

No.     97.     Banner,  Thirty-third  infantry. 

No.  .98.  National  nag,  Thirty-third  infantry;  Yazoo  Pass, 
Helena,  Little  Rock,  Prairie  D'Ann,  Poison 
Springs,  Jenkins1  Ferry,  Mobile. 

No.    99.     Banner,  Thirty-fourth  infantry. 

No.  100.  National  nag,  Thirty-fourth  infantry;  Chickasaw 
Bluff,  Arkansas  Post,  Vicksburg,  Yazoo  City,  Ft. 
Esperanza. 

No.  101.     National  flag,  Thirty-fourth  infantry. 

No.  102.     Banner,  Thirty-fifth  infantry. 

No.  103.     Banner,  Thirty-fifth  infantry. 

No.  104.     National  flag,  Thirty-fifth  infantry 

No.  105.     National  flag.  Thirty-fifth  infantry. 

No.  106.     Banner,  Thirty-sixth  infantry. 

No.  107.     Banner,  Thirty-sixth  infantry. 

No.  108.  National  flag,  Thirty-eighth  infantry;  turned  over 
to  adjutant-general  by  Robert  McNutt,  late  sur 
geon  of  regiment,  in  1888. 

No.  109.  National  flag,  thirty-ninth  infantry;  Parker's  Cross 
Roads,  Tenn.,  1862;  Cherokee  Station,  Ala.,  1863; 
Town  Creek,  Ala.,  1863;  Snake  Creek  Gap,  Ga., 
1864;  Lay's  Ferry,  Ga.,  1864;  Allatoona,  Ga., 
1864;  Columbia,  S.  C.,  1865;  Bentonville,  N.  C., 
1865. 

No.  110.  National  flag,  Thirty-ninth  infantry;  turned  over  by 
Col.  J.  M.  Griffith,  August,  1894. 

No.  111.  Banner,  Thirty -ninth  infantry;  turned  over  by  Col. 
J.  M.  Griffith,  August,  1894. 

No.  112.  National  flag,  Fortieth  infantry;  Helena,  Little  Rock, 
Elkin's  Ford,  Prairie  D'Ann,  Camden,  Jenkins' 
Ferry,  Marks'  Mills  Fort  Pemberton. 

No.  113.  National  flag,  First  colored  regiment,  infantry  (also 
known  as  Sixtieth  U.  S.  colored  infantry). 

No.  114.  Banner,  unknown;  received  from  adjutant-general  of 
Wisconsin. 

No.  115.  Banner,  First  battery;  first  at  Pea  Ridge,  March  7 
and  8,  1862;  Lookout  Mountain,  Kenesaw  Moun 
tain;  Atlanta,  July  20,  21,  22  and  28th;  first  at 
Port  Gibson,  May  1,  1863;  Atlanta,  August  11, 
1864;  Missionary  Ridge,  Resaca,  Dallas,  New 


84  BATTLE  FLAG  DAY. 

Hope,  Church,  Chickasaw,  Arkansas  Post,  Siege 
of  Vicksburg,  Chattahoochie  River,  Jackson, 
Cherokee,  Tuscumbia;  presented  by  the  city  of 
Burlington  to  First  Iowa  battery,  February  15, 
1864. 

No.  116.  Banner,  First  Iowa  battery.  ''First  at  Pea  Ridge, 
March  7th  and  8th,  1862;  Chickasaw  Bayou,  Arkan 
sas  Post,  Port  Gibson,  Jackson,  Siege  of  Vicks 
burg,  Cherokee,  Tuscumbia,  Lookout  Mountain, 
Resaca,  Dallas,  Burnt  Hickory,  Kenesaw,  Nicka 
Jack,  Atlanta,  Jonesboro,  Lovejoy  Station." 

No.  117.     National  flag,  Second  battery. 

No.  118.     National  flag,  Second  battery.     (Veteran.) 

No.  119.  Banner,  Third  battery;  "Sugar  Creek,  February  17th, 
Pea  Ridge,  March  7th  and  8th;  Helena,  July  4th; 
Ft.  Pemberton;  Little  Rock."  Presented  to  bat 
tery  in  fall  of  1862  by  ladies  of  Milwaukee.  The 
coat  of  arms  of  Iowa  is  placed  on  one  side  and 
that  of  Wisconsin  on  the  other. 

No.  120.     National  flag,  First  cavalry. 

No.  121.     Banner  (small),  Second  cavalry.     (Veteran.) 

No.  122.     Banner  (small),  Second  cavalry.     (Veteran.) 

No.  123.     Guidon,  Second  cavalry. 

No.  124.     Guidon,  Second  cavalry. 

No.  125.     Guidon,  Third  cavalry. 

No.  126.     Banner  (small),  Third  cavalry. 

No.  127.     National  flag,  Third  cavalry. 

No.  128.  National  flag,  Third  cavalry,  (Veteran.)  "Pea  Ridge, 
Kirksville,  Vicksburg,  Little  Rock,  Harrisburg, 
Big  Blue,  Osage,  Montevallo,  Ala.,  Mch.  31,  1865; 
Ebenezer  Church,  April  1,  1865;  Columbus,  Ga., 
April  16,  1865;  Selma,  Ala.,  April  2,  1865." 

No.  129.     Guidon,  Fourth  cavalry. 

No.  130.     Banner  (small),  Fourth  cavalry. 

No.  131.  National  flag,  Fourth  cavalry.  Big  Blue,  October  23, 
1864;  Osage,  October  25,  1864;  Jackson,  May  14, 
July  9  to  July  14,  1863,  February  5,  1864;  Haines 
Bluff — captured  by  Fourth  Iowa  cavalry,  May  19, 
1863;  Siege  of  Vicksburg,  1863;  Canton,  July,  1863; 
Medidian,  February  4,  1864;  Tupelo,  July  13,  1864; 
Selma,  April  2,  1865,  and  closing  battles. 


LIST   OF   FLAGS. 


85 


No.  132.     Banner  (small),  Fifth  cavalry.     (Veteran.) 

No.  133.     Banner  (small),  Fifth  cavalry. 

No.  134.     Banner,  Seventh  cavalry. 

No.  135.     Guidon,  Eighth  cavalry. 

No.  136.     Banner,  Eighth  cavalry. 

No.  137.     Guidon,  Eighth  cavalry. 

No.  138.     National  flag,  Thirty-fifth  infantry.     Jackson,  May 

14;  Vicksburg;  Jackson,  July  16;  Henderson  Hill; 

Pleasant  Hill;  Mansuri;  Yellow  Bayou;  Old  River 

Lake;  Tupelo. 


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